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Admission All Classes - A history of entertainment 1850-1950
"Admission all Classes" is an ambitious partnership
between the National Fairground Archive at the University of Sheffield
and Blackpool Council which is also supported by the Blackpool Theatres
Liaison Group, representing all Blackpool's commercial theatrical
venues.
The National Fairground Archive and Blackpool
Council have obtained funding from the Arts and Humanities Research
Council's Knowledge Transfer Programme to disseminate the history
of fairground, music hall, circus and sea-side entertainments at
the UK's premier entertainment resort. This will enable both the
National Fairground Archive and Blackpool Council to share large
resources of research and archival material on the history of popular
entertainment with a much wider audience than it has had before
with Blackpool's residents and visitors.
Ten themed weekends will take place from July
2007 to October 2008, with each highlighting the rich array of Victorian
and Edwardian entertainment venues in Blackpool. The Grand Theatre,
the Winter Gardens, the three Victorian Piers, the Tower Circus
and the Pleasure Beach, will showcase high-class circus, fairground
and variety type revues from the world of new variety and circus.
Admission All Classes has a dedicated website
here.
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