FOR over two centuries, audiences have flocked to the Big Top for high-wire thrills and slapstick clowning. The 250th anniversary of the circus is celebrated at Decades of Delight, a new exhibition at ...

TImes have changed in the Big Top. KATHERINE MACALISTER talks to the manager of Billy Smart’s and one of the star trapeze artists about what to expect Roll up, roll up, the circus is coming to town.

Seventy years ago, in a Southampton still basking in the post-war era, the arrival of a travelling circus was a spectacle that rarely raised an eyebrow of disapproval. The rumble of wagons, the roar ...

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