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World's Fair and Expositions Collection

 Collection
Reference code: NFA0159
Scope and Contents

The collection covers material from British, European and American expositions including programmes, guides, postcards, advertisements, newspapers and books.

Dates: 1851 - 1951

World's Fair Newspaper Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0085
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the complete run of The World's Fair Newspaper from 1904 to the present day. Issues from 1904 to 1950 are on microfilm.

Dates: 1904 - 2020

Zaidman Collection

 Collection
Reference code: ZAI1
Scope and Contents

The personal library of Lazar Zaidman, reflecting his interests in anti-Fascism, Jewish matters, politics and economics before, during and after World War II.

For further details of this collection please see the listing in the External Documents Section below.

Dates: 1872 - 1978

Zaidman Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 118
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of printed ephemera and manuscript documents relating to the Anti-Fascist movement in London and to the Communist Party of Great Britain during the period 1930s to 1950s. There is also material on Jewish affairs during this period, including the origins of the state of Israel. A collection of pamphlets is included.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents section below.

Dates: 1911 - 1961

Zoe Beloff Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0116
Scope and Contents Archive of the Blackpool chapter of Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and their Circle1926-1972 comprising; 12 framed humorous postcards from Blackpool mounted on A4 paper with hand written text, 18 framed pieces of A4 size letters containing typed text and drawings and watercolours, 1 large hand drawn piece with text a hand drawn introduction to the material described above, 14 black and white photographs of people, 32 negatives of landscapes and people, 5...
Dates: 1929 - 2013

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National Fairground and Circus Archive 154
Special Collections and Archives 230
University Archive 1
 
Subject
Acrobats 19
Adult education 6
Aerialists 19
Amusement parks 16
Amusement rides 90
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Arabic 2
Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian 1
Catalan; Valencian 2
Chinese 4
Croatian 1
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Acres, Birt, 1854 - 1918 2
Allan, Alastair J., Active 1970s - 2015 2
Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 5
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 2
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Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 2
Aspland, George, 1836 - 1911 2
Aspland-Howden (c1875 - 1915) 2
Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 3
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 2
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 3
B. Cole & Sons (Amusements) Ltd (Established 1890) 2
Barnum & Bailey Circus (1881 - 1919) 2
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 3
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 2
Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 2
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 5
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 9
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 2
Big Daddy, 1930 - 1997 2
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 9
Bird, Margaret, c1900 - 1999 2
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 4
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 5
Bobby Robert's Super Circus (1993 - 2011) 2
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 4
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 3
Bradley, Philip W, 1920 - 1999 2
Braithwaite, David, 1932 - 1982 4
British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 3
British Union of Fascists (1932 - 1940) 6
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 4
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 2
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 5
Calladine, Neil, Born 1951 2
Carl Hagenbeck Circus (c1893 - 1907) 2
Carters Steam Fair (1977 - 2022) 4
Centre for Luxembourg Studies (University of Sheffield) (Established 1995) 2
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 3
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 8
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 3
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 4
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 4
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 4
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 3
Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 3
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 3
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 3
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 4
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 3
Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 3
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 3
Electric (Modern) Printing Company (c1930 - 1991) 3
Fairground Association of Great Britain. (FAGB) (Established 1977) 6
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 5
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 5
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 4
George Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd (1875 - 1977) 3
Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 3
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 3
Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 3
Holland Amusements (Initiated c1870) 3
Horne, Thomas, Reverend, c1850 - 1918 3
Innes Smith, Robert William, 1872 - 1933 3
J.W. Shaw Amusements (Initiated c1860 - 1889) 3
Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 3
Krebs, Hans Adolf, Sir, 1900 - 1981 3
Ling's Family Amusements (Initiated c1850 - 1859) 3
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 6
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4
Mellors Group Events (Established 1890) 3
Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 3
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 3
National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) (1975 - 2008) 16
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 3
Norman, Tom, 1860 - 1930 (The Silver King) 3
Olympia London (Established 1886) 5
P.C. Sorcar, Junior, Born 1946 3
Pat Collins Fun Fairs (Established 1899) 3
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 3
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 6
Robert Brothers Circus (Established 1944) 3
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 5
Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 3
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 7
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 5
Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 4
Smith, George Charles Moore, 1858 - 1940 3
The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 3
The Kursaal (1894 - 2020) 3
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 17
Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 4
Union Movement (1948 - 1973) 3
University of Sheffield (Established 1828) 26
University of Sheffield Library (Established 1879) 7
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 3
Waddington's Funfairs (Initiated c1860 - 1899) 3
Wilsons Group Services (Established c1860) 4
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 12
Zippos Circus (Established 1986) 3
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