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Charles Taylor Collection
The Charles Taylor collection is a fine example of Taylor’s of Wombwell printers’ posters, which highlight changes in printing techniques, fashion and taste within the popular entertainment industry. Included are examples of posters for pantomimes, fairs and circuses. The collection also contains handbills and other advertising material.
Christopher Palmer Collection
Circus programmes and VHS tapes from Billy Smart’s Circus and Chipperfields’s Circus collected during the 1970s and early 1980s by the TV producer, Christopher John Palmer. There are also a number of promotional photographs of artistes and other ephemera related to the circus.
Circus Friends Association Collection
This collection consists of a large library of books and journals, as well as archival material including posters, programmes, photographs, films, handbills, research material, scrapbooks, original artwork and many other items of ephemera relating to British, Irish and European circuses
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- Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
- Anderson, Moira, Born 1938 1
- Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 1
- Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 1
- Askey, Arthur Bowden, 1900 - 1982 1
- Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 1
- Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 1
- Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 2
- Aznavour, Charles, 1924 - 2018 1
- Barbette, 1899 - 1973 1
- Barltrop, Chris, Born c1958 1
- Barnum & Bailey Circus (1881 - 1919) 1
- Barrett's Canadian Circus (1925 - 1956) 1
- Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
- Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 1
- Batty, William, 1801 - 1868 1
- Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 1
- Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 2
- Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 2
- Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 1
- Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 2
- Bingley Hall (1850 - 1984) 1
- Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 2
- Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 1
- Blondin, Charles, 1824 - 1897 1
- Boone, Pat, Born 1934 1
- Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 1
- Bostock, Frank C., 1866 - 1912 1
- Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 1
- Brick, Hans, 1889 - 1972 1
- Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 1
- C. Doubtfire (Amusements) Limited (Active c1950 - 1999) 1
- Carl Hagenbeck Circus (c1893 - 1907) 1
- Chapman Circus (1928 - 1940) 1
- Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 1
- Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 1
- Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 2
- Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
- Circus Archaos (Established 1986) 1
- Circus Barum (1878 - 2008) 1
- Circus Boltini (Established c1939) 1
- Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2
- Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 1
- Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
- Circus Ginnett (Established c1800) 1
- Circus Knie (Established 1803) 2
- Circus Krone (Established 1905) 2
- Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 1
- Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 2
- Circus Roncalli (Established 1976) 1
- Circus Sarrasani (c1902 - 1977) 1
- Circus Togni (Established c1880) 1
- Circus of Horrors (Established 1995) 1
- Cirkus Arnardo (Established 1949) 1
- Cirkus Benneweis (1887 - 2015) 1
- Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 1
- Cirque Jean Richard (c1957 - 1990) 1
- Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 2
- Cirque du Soleil (Established 1984) 1
- Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 1
- Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 1
- Corrigan, Albert, c1920 - 2008 1
- Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 2
- Court, Alfred, 1883 - 1977 1
- Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 1
- Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 1
- David Smart's Super Circus (c1980 - 1983) 1
- Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 1
- Distel, Sacha, 1933 - 2004 1
- Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 2
- Doddles, c1877 - 1967 1
- Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 1
- Ducrow, Andrew (1793-1842) 1
- Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 1
- Essex, David, Born 1947 1
- Farrar's Fun Fairs (Established 1876) 1
- Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain (Established 1977) 1
- Ford, Clifton, 1931 - 2009 1
- Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 2
- Fossett, Jacko, 1922 - 2004 1
- G.R. Tucker and Sons Funfairs (Established 1976) 1
- Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 2
- Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 2
- Giffords Circus (Established 2000) 1
- Glasgow Empire Theatre (1897 - 1963) 1
- Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 2
- Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 1
- Hamilton, David, Born 1938 1
- Hassan, Ali, Born c1876 1
- Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 1
- Jamieson, David, 1949 - 2017 2
- Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 2
- Popov, Oleg, 1930 - 2016 2
- Rogana, Born 1933 2
- Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 2
- Thames Television (Established 1968) 2
- W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 2
- Yokoi, Lilly, Born 1929 2 + ∧ less
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