Leeds – Journal of Victorian Culture Online

The Lost Circuses of Victorian Leeds

May 20, 2021 Steve Ward Other, Victorians Beyond the Academy, Victorians on Display

The Victorian era was the golden age of the circus. By the time that Victoria came to the throne, the circus, as we might recognise it today, was barely seventy years old. Founded in London by Philip Astley in 1768 with displays of horsemanship, military, and trick riding, the circus had expanded rapidly in the following years. Astley travelled throughout England giving performances in many northern towns and cities until he eventually made his way to Dublin. Performances were either

Simon Morgan, The Journals of John Deakin Heaton and the ‘Heaton Map Project’

August 3, 2015 lucinda matthews-jones Published in JVC, Victorians Beyond the Academy

Simon Morgan is the Principal Lecturer in History at Leeds Beckett University. He is the author of A Victorian Woman’s Place: Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007), and co-editor with Professor Anthony Howe of the Letters of Richard Cobden, the fourth and final volume of which will be published in August 2015 by Oxford University Press. He is currently working on a monograph entitled Personality and Popular Politics, 1815-1867: Heroes, Champions and Celebrities in the Age