Item:Q37394 - Revision history

ChrisVG: /* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Property:P63: Item:Q37395

2025-01-06T10:22:47Z

‎Created claim: Source (P63): Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395)

ChrisVG: /* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Property:P64: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2017/12/fairylights/

2025-01-06T10:22:38Z

‎Removed claim: Source URL (P64): https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2017/12/fairylights/

ChrisVG: /* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Property:P47: Dating back 135 years, it was at the Savoy Theatre in London that the term ‘fairy lights’ was first coined.Opened in 1881, the Savoy was the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity, fitted out with 1,200 incandescent light bulbs created by North East inventor Sir Joseph Swan.A year later, Swan was commissioned by the theatre’s owner - Richard D'Oyly Carte - to create miniature lights to adorn the dresses of the lead f...

2025-01-06T10:03:50Z

‎Created claim: context (P47): Dating back 135 years, it was at the Savoy Theatre in London that the term ‘fairy lights’ was first coined.Opened in 1881, the Savoy was the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity, fitted out with 1,200 incandescent light bulbs created by North East inventor Sir Joseph Swan.A year later, Swan was commissioned by the theatre’s owner - Richard D'Oyly Carte - to create miniature lights to adorn the dresses of the lead f...

ChrisVG: /* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Property:P64: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2017/12/fairylights/

2025-01-06T10:02:30Z

‎Created claim: Source URL (P64): https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2017/12/fairylights/

ChrisVG: /* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Property:P19: Item:Q195

2025-01-06T10:01:55Z

‎Created claim: Field (P19): Costume, hair and make-up (Q195)

ChrisVG: /* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Property:P19: Item:Q23

2025-01-06T10:01:46Z

‎Created claim: Field (P19): Props and special effects (Q23)

ChrisVG: /* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Property:P11: Item:Q50

2025-01-06T10:01:32Z

‎Created claim: Type of information (P11): equipment (Q50)

ChrisVG: /* wbsetlabel-add:1|nl */ Kerstlampjes

2025-01-06T09:59:59Z

‎Added [nl] label: Kerstlampjes

ChrisVG: /* wbeditentity-create:2|en */ fairy lights

2025-01-06T09:59:44Z

‎Created a new Item: fairy lights

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← Older revision	Revision as of 10:22, 6 January 2025
	Property / Source
	+	Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed
	Property / Source: Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed / rank
	+	Normal rank

← Older revision		Revision as of 10:22, 6 January 2025
Property / Source URL
-	~~https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2017/12/fairylights/~~
Property / Source URL: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2017/12/fairylights/ / rank
-	~~Normal rank~~

← Older revision	Revision as of 10:03, 6 January 2025
	Property / context
	+	Dating back 135 years, it was at the Savoy Theatre in London that the term ‘fairy lights’ was first coined.Opened in 1881, the Savoy was the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity, fitted out with 1,200 incandescent light bulbs created by North East inventor Sir Joseph Swan.A year later, Swan was commissioned by the theatre’s owner - Richard D'Oyly Carte - to create miniature lights to adorn the dresses of the lead fairies on the opening night of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe.The show opened to critical acclaim and led to dresses adorned with lights powered by small battery packs hidden beneath the folds of the cloth becoming the must-have fashion accessory of high society ladies.And a year later Edward Johnson, a colleague of Swan’s US rival Sir Thomas Edison, became the first person to put fairy lights on a Christmas tree – a publicity stunt which would become a global, Christmas tradition. (English)
	Property / context: Dating back 135 years, it was at the Savoy Theatre in London that the term ‘fairy lights’ was first coined.Opened in 1881, the Savoy was the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity, fitted out with 1,200 incandescent light bulbs created by North East inventor Sir Joseph Swan.A year later, Swan was commissioned by the theatre’s owner - Richard D'Oyly Carte - to create miniature lights to adorn the dresses of the lead fairies on the opening night of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe.The show opened to critical acclaim and led to dresses adorned with lights powered by small battery packs hidden beneath the folds of the cloth becoming the must-have fashion accessory of high society ladies.And a year later Edward Johnson, a colleague of Swan’s US rival Sir Thomas Edison, became the first person to put fairy lights on a Christmas tree – a publicity stunt which would become a global, Christmas tradition. (English) / rank
	+	Normal rank

← Older revision	Revision as of 10:02, 6 January 2025
	Property / Source URL
	+	https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2017/12/fairylights/
	Property / Source URL: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2017/12/fairylights/ / rank
	+	Normal rank

← Older revision	Revision as of 10:01, 6 January 2025
	Property / Field
	+	Costume, hair and make-up
	Property / Field: Costume, hair and make-up / rank
	+	Normal rank

← Older revision	Revision as of 10:01, 6 January 2025
	Property / Type of information
	+	equipment
	Property / Type of information: equipment / rank
	+	Normal rank
	Property / Type of information: equipment / qualifier
	+	type of equipment: lamp

← Older revision	Revision as of 09:59, 6 January 2025
label / nl	label / nl
	+	Kerstlampjes