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Showing posts with label Elephants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elephants. Show all posts
Monday, 5 January 2026

Back when you could buy a baby elephant in Harrods!

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Monday, 1 December 2025

The animal rights protest that made me love the circus

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  This is the picture and newspaper headline that started my journey into the circus . I'd been to the circus before, mainly to review...
Thursday, 30 November 2023

Review: The Greatest Show On Earth, Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey, 2023

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The biggest circus story of 2023 was the return of The Greatest Show on Earth . It's a show with 150 years of history behind it. The na...
Monday, 24 April 2023

Death of a Strongman, Khalil Oghab, Father of the Iranian Circus

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When Gerry Cottle passed away in 2021, I naturally called his long time associate 'Doktor' John Haze , founder of the Circus of Hor...
Wednesday, 24 August 2022

Circus 1903 returns to London this Christmas

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After wowing crowds at the Southbank Centre in 2018 and 2019, retro circus Circus 1903 returns to London at the Eventim Apollo in London ...
Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Wild animals banned from English circuses

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News coverage of one of the last elephants to appear in an English circus - in 1999 The House of Lords has today approved a ban on wi...
Wednesday, 22 August 2018

Bring in the holographic horses, as Circus Roncalli rides into the future

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With animals steadily disappearing from circuses around the world, some traditional big top fans may see Circus Roncalli 's latest a...
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Sunday, 10 June 2018

When Rick Astley met Philip Astley (sort of)

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I always wondered if 80s singer Rick Astley was a descendant of Philip Astley , the equestrian who founded the modern circus 250 years ...
Thursday, 12 April 2018

American Circus in Paris!

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Ringling may have retired across the pond, but in Paris zay have ze elephants ! Ze tigers ! Ze parades ! Ze 3 (count 'em) rings ...
Monday, 4 September 2017

Circus Elephants ban in Illinois

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The fate of the traditional circus with animals has suffered another blow with Illinois becoming the first state in America to ba...
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Friday, 30 June 2017

Hugh Jackman stars with fake elephant in Barnum flick The Greatest Showman

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PT Barnum Drawing by Douglas McPherson Well, the Ringling Brothers dropped the elephants - and we know what happened next - s...
Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Tigers back by popular demand - it's what the public wants to see says circus

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An American circus that raises money for good causes is bringing back its tigers and elephants thanks to popular demand. The Me...
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Friday, 20 January 2017

Today Ringling, tomorrow your horse, dog, cat and Big Mac

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The announcement of Ringling Bros circus closing this year, makes it an apt juncture to re-read the words of tiger tamer Thomas Chipperf...
Monday, 16 January 2017

If the circus was a country...

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I found these words by Jamie Clubb incredibly moving when I first read them, and at a time when the circus is hurting over Ringling‘s closu...
Sunday, 8 January 2017

Politics and the circus

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Political circus is a common expression, but from public funding of the arts to legislation on circus animals , the changing tides of p...
Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Beer for elephants

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Circus Mania will soon be reprinted with an exciting new cover. If you want to own a "rare" first edition with the ...
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Friday, 28 October 2016

Growing up in the circus - a picture that says it all

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Here's a picture that surely sums up how wonderful it must have been to grow up in one of the great circuses of yesteryear. Two kids...
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Friday, 18 March 2016

Saving Anne the Elephant by Claire Ellicott - Book Review.

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Bull-hook (noun) A pointy stick used by animal rights activists to bash circuses and prod the consciences of fans. It was largely...
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Sunday, 6 March 2016

Love in the Elephant Tent by Kathleen Cremonesi

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When Kathleen Cremonesi set off on a back-packing tour of Europe in her twenties, she didn't dream she would end up joining a c...
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