Acrobats

Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Scope Note: Performers

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Christopher Palmer Collection

Fonds

Reference code: NFA0105

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1973 - 1983

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Circus Friends Association Collection

Fonds

Reference code: NFA0122

Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1795 - 2020

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Programmes, 1970 - 1981

Series

Reference code: 178K41

Scope and Contents

Programmes for various British and international circuses including Billy Russell's, Blackpool Tower, Fossett's, Chipperfield's and the Toni Boltini's Circus.

Dates: 1970 - 1981

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Christopher Palmer Collection