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.

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

Colour and black and white photographs of Jay Miller's Circus, Mike Austin's Circus, Gerry Cottle's Circus, Robert Brothers Circus, Chipperfield's Circus, Circus Krone, Circus Paulos and Gandey's Circus including tents, performers and acts, also Bertam Mills and Blackpool Tower Circus posters, circus enthisiast events, circus models, also a wedding at Galaxy Circus.

Colour illustration of ice skating elephant wearing a pink skirt, ice skating clown and three ice skating showgirls on a blue background on the front cover, inside introduction, black and white photographs of acts and performers, programme in the centre and commercial advertising. Printed by W. E. Berry, Nesfield Works, Bradford, 6p.p.

Red type on white background with illustration of smiley clown's face on the front cover, inside blue type on white background with introduction to history of circus and programme, on reverse advertisement for the Dorset steam and historic fund, 2p.p.

Illustrations and type on red, blue and white on the front cover showing a showgirl and a clown's face, inside introduction and programme and factual information on back cover. Printed by Trelawney Press Ltd, White Lund, Morecambe, 2p.p.

Colour photograph of circus ring with parade in the centre with American and British flags in a circle on a blue background and colour illustration of clown on the front cover, inside black and white photographs of acts and performers and long articles, half the programme in English and half in Chinese with programme in the centre and commercial advertising, 10p.p.

Wembley Exhibition Halls. Colour photograph of Jeremy Beadle wearing a red tail jacket and black trousers on bottom left corner with arms open wide and a fairground at night on the background on the front cover, inside introduction to Jeremy Beadle, colour and black and white photographs of acts and performers with text, programme in the centre, followed by articles on circus and fairground topics and commercial advertising, 8p.p.

Wembley Halls 1, 2 and 3. Colour photograph of Jeremy Beadle riding an elephant in circle in the centre of the front cover, over a yellow background, inside introduction, Gerry Cottle's story, colour photographs of acts and performers, programme in the centre and commercial advertising, 18p.p.

Royal Silver Jubilee programme. Blue and white illustration of clown on the left, roaring lion in the centre and ice skater on the right with circus tent and elephants and horses on the background and international flags above on the top section and programme below on the front cover, inside blue and white photographs of the circus and text, on back cover blue and white photographs of performers and text, 2p.p.

Gerry Cottle Circus programmes including Circus of Horrors, Cottle and Austen, Cottle-Chipperfield Circus, Continental Berlin Circus, Moscow State Circus and Gerry Cottle's Circus abroad.

Colour photograph of performers posing in the circus ring and green, yellow and purple type on the front cover, inside introduction to Gerry Cottle's story and his family with colour photographs and various articles on animal welfare, the history of circus and others with colour photographs, programme missing, 6p.p.

Las Kansas jugglers, Khalil Oghaby Strongman, The Cimarro Brothers high-wire, Captain Sydney Howes with Lions, Orramic, Scott’s Californian Sea-Lions, The Inaros Sisters trapeze, The Santus Julian Troupe French wizards on Wheels, Billy Wild, Otaki and the James Sisters Wild West Show, Miss Babette’s Lovable Dogs. Colour with photos, 16p.p.

Royal Silver Jubilee, Binak Brothers knockabout comedy, Captain Sydney Howes and his lions, The Cimarro brothers high-wire, The Inaros Sisters trapeze, Sonny Fossett and Co. clowns, Otaki and the James Sisters Wild West Show, Batman and Robin aerial act, Captain Universe human cannonball. Colour illustration of human cannonball on cover. Fold out programme with photos.