News and Updates: Current News
circus exhibition
New Exhibition - Circus Showmen: Innovators Who Shaped the Circus - curated by Amanda Bernstein and Professor Vanessa Toulmin featuring rare archival material and posters from the NFA's circus holdings, family collections from Charlie Cairoli Jnr, Gerry Cottle and Gary Smart and the Circus Friends International. 1 Feb to 3 May 2012.
See the Library's exhibition page details for more information. Photographs from the opening event can be seen here.
reading lists
We have updated our reading lists, and added a new resource for early cinema - click here for details.
out and about
Look out for a host of NFA authored fairground articles in February 2012 - a report from Dublin (Mission Space pictured above), an article of Maxwell Waltzers for the Platform magazine, an article on early Orbiters for Kirmes Revue, and the continuation of our Paul Angel documentation in the Fairground Mercury.
coming in 2012
The National Fairground Archive has
great plans for 2012, look out for further details of the following:
- Showzam 2012 (10-19 February in Blackpool) featuring the best of the variety and illusion world
- Roundhouse event - 23-29 April - details to follow.
- New digital access to NFA material, with further collections to be added.
- Sheffield Jungle Project - conclusion of the 1912-13 event.
- Further articles for the Fairground Mercury, Platform and Kirmes Revue magazines.
- New exhibitions in the Western Bank Library exhibition space - starting with a history of Circus in January 2012.
Roundhouse event
Details of Professor Toulmin's show at the London Roundhouse are now available on the Roundhouse website. More details to follow in the new year!
Erich Knocke - a tribute
We include a short tribute and memory to Erich Knocke, key German showman and founder of a the fairground musuem in Germany.
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