The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs - The Original Classic Edition
The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs - The Original Classic Edition

Author: Thomas Frost

Publisher: Emereo Publishing

Published: 2013-03-10

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9781486492770

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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Thomas Frost, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs: Look inside the book: It was admitted by the report of 1840 that documents in the office of the City solicitor afforded evidence of conflicting opinions on the subject in former times; and it seems probable that the belief in the two charters attributed to Henry II. and the dual character of the fair had its origin in the disputes which arose from time to time, during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, between the civic and monastic authoritiesPg 10 as to the right to the tolls payable on goods carried into that portion of the fair which was held in Smithfield, beyond the precincts of the priory. ...“We have also granted to the said Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens, and their successors for ever, that they shall and may have yearly one fair in the town aforesaid, for three days, that is to say, the 7th, 8th, 9th days of September, to be holden, together with a Court of Pie-Powders, and with all the liberties to such fairs appertaining: And that they may have and hold there at their said Courts, before their said Minister or deputy, during the said three days, from day to day, hour to hour, and from time to time, all occasions, plaints, and pleas of a Court of Pie-Powders, together with all summons, attachments, arrests, issues, fines, redemptions, and commodities, and other rights whatsoever, to the said Court of Pie-Powders in any way pertaining, without any impediment, let, or hindrance of Us, our heirs or successors, or other our officers and ministers soever.”

The Old Showmen, and Old London Fairs (Classic Reprint)
The Old Showmen, and Old London Fairs (Classic Reprint)

Author: Thomas Frost

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-06

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9781332438778

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Excerpt from The Old Showmen, and Old London Fairs Popular amusements constitute so important a part of a nation's social history that no excuse need be offered for the production of the present volume. The story of the old London fairs has not been told before, and that of the almost extinct race of the old showmen is so inextricably interwoven with it that the most convenient way of telling either was to tell both. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Old Showmen, and the Old London Fairs
The Old Showmen, and the Old London Fairs

Author: Thomas Frost

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9781230296456

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. Successors of Scowton and Richardson--Nelson. Lee--Crowther, the Actor--Paul Herring -- Newman and Allen's Theatre--Fair in Hyde Park--Hilton's Menagerie--Bartholomew Fair again threatened--Wombwell's Menagerie-- Charles Freer--Fox Cooper and the Bosjesmans--Destruction of Johnson and Lee's Theatre--Reed's Theatre-- Hales, the Norfolk Giant--Affray at Greenwich--Death of Wombwell--Lion Queens--Catastrophe in a Menagerie-- World's Fair at Bayswater--Abbott's Theatre--Charlie, Keith, the Clown--Robson, the Comedian--Manders's Menagerie--Macomo, the Lion-Tamer--Macarthy and the Lions--Fairgrieve's Menagerie--Lorenzo and the Tigress --Sale of a Menagerie--Extinction of the London Fairs-- Decline of Fairs near the Metropolis--Conclusion. The change in the proprietorship of the travelling theatres conducted during so many years by Scowton and Richardson may be regarded as a stage, in the history of the people's amusements. The decline which showmen had noted during the pre-. ceding years had not been perceptible to the public, who had crowded the London fairs more densely than ever, and found as many showmen catering for their entertainment as in earlier years. But while the crowds that gazed at Wombwell's show-cloths, and the parades of Richardson's theatre and Clarke's circus, became more dense every year, the showmen found their rcoeipts diminish and their expenses increase. The people had more wants than formerly, and their means of supplying them had not, at the time of the decadence of the London fairs, experienced a corresponding increase. The vast and ever-growing population of the metropolis furnished larger crowds, but the middle-class element had diminished, and continued to diminish; and .the showmen found reduced...

The 'perpetual fair'
The 'perpetual fair'

Author: Anne Wohlcke

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1526101130

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Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. Fairs were important in the lives of ordinary Londoners as sites of women’s work, sociability, and local and national identity formation. Rarely studied as vital to London’s modernisation, urban fairs are a microcosm of London’s transforming society, demonstrating how metropolitan changes were popularly contested. This study contributes to our understanding of popular culture and modernisation in Britain during the formative years of its global empire. Fascinating examples drawn from literary and visual culture make this an engaging study for scholars and students of late Stuart and early Georgian Britain, urban and gender history, World’s Fairs and cultural studies.

The Wonders
The Wonders

Author: John Woolf

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 164313292X

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On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century, and the age of the freak was born.Bewitching all levels of society, it was a world of curiosities and astonishing spectacle—of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, Siamese twins, and swaggering showmen. But the real stories—human dramas that so often eclipsed the fantasy presented on the stage—of the performing men, women and children, have been forgotten or marginalized in the histories of the very people who exploited them. In this richly evocative account, John Woolf uses a wealth of recently discovered material to bring to life the sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant, always extraordinary stories of people who used their (dis)abilities and difference to become some of the first international celebrities. Through their lives we discover afresh some of the great transformations of the age: the birth of show business, of celebrity, of advertising, and of “alternative facts” while also exploring the tensions between the power of fame, the impact of exploitation, and our fascination with “otherness.”