Raluca Bianca Roman’s research part in the project ‘Diverging Fates: Travelling Circus people in Europe during National Socialism’ is supported by the Finnish Kone Foundation. Roman has conducted archival research in the UK during […]
Zoltán Hirsch was a Hungarian Jew and a person of short statue, who performed as clown and acrobat (stage-name Zoli Hirsch) in circus and vaudeville shows. In 1942, the world-renowned circus performer self-published an autobiography […]
Lulu and Albertino (n.d.). Image courtesy of: National Fairground and Circus Archives, University of Sheffield Lulu Adams (born Louise Cranston) was an English circus performer, and one of the first and few female clowns […]
Image courtesy of: Blackpool Council Historic Collections Nikolai Poliakov, known more widely as Coco the Clown, is perhaps Britain’s most famous August clown of the 20th century. He was born to a Jewish theatre family […]
Image courtesy of: Blackpool Council Historic Collections Charlie Cairoli was born in Affori, a district of Milan (Italy), on February 15th 1910, to a travelling circus family of French origins. Alongside his father […]
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