Serials/Periodicals
Over 200 titles of journals from around the world covering fairs, theme parks, early cinema and visual popular culture: for detailed list see Sheffield Union List of Serials (SULOS) at http://library.shef.ac.uk
Popular titles include Living Pictures, 19th Century Theatre, James Taylor's Shocked and Amazed and Vaudeville Times. Fairground periodicals or magazines from the United Kingdom and Europe for example World's Fair, The Fairground Mercury, The Platform (Jottings), The Merry Go- Round, The Tober, and titles from Italy, Germany and Holland such as the classic Kirmes und Park Revue
Over 100 Circus titles as part of the Circus Friends Association including King Pole, White Top, Bandwagon and other publications from around the world.
The NFA have created detailed subject indexes for key fairground journals such as the Fairground Mercury and Merry-Go-Round, and these are accessible in the themed subject area of the holdings page.
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