Kittie : interview on her Saucy Victorian Values
By Simone Baird.  First Published in Time Out London : Aug 2007

Ministry of Burlesque founder Kittie Klaw tells Time Out why harking back to the Victorian age is a necessary step in looking to the future…

The Ministry of Burlesque started life seven years ago as a bit of escapism from my student life, says founder Kittie Klaw. Since teaming up with James Malach, the Ministry has grown, says Kittie, into the world’s largest burlesque community and best-known UK organisation. Not bad for a business that started as a hobby on the side. read more….

Filmed in 2004, this is an edited version of BBC2’s Psychic Detectives which shows Kittie in her scientific role of ghost hunting skeptic and parapsychology student. Here is where Kittie encounters the fabulous Britannia Panopticon music hall for the first time.

or,  ‘The Spiritualist Striptease’

‘A grand parlour room bathed in the dim and eerie glow mixed of phosphorous and magnesium lamps hosts an arrangement of ladies and gentleman seated on edge - eagerly awaiting the fine figure of a scantily clad, nubile maiden to appear before them.  Through some mysterious ritual, the audience witness a noble girl in her teens fall into trance and be taken amongst the shadowing shapes of the room to the dark enclosure intended for her… read more….