A collection of paper cut-outs, most of them made by Richard Hall between 1780 and 1800. They illustrate life in the Georgian period and offer a fascinating glimpse of everyday life.
A collection of paper cut-outs, most of them made by Richard Hall between 1780 and 1800. They illustrate life in the Georgian period and offer a fasci...
This is the story of one of the most famous and popular entrepreneurs of the 18th Century - a man dubbed "the father of the modern circus." Philip Astley was a teenager who yearned for adventure and above all who wanted to work with horses. He served in the British Army in the Seven Years War, learning how to train horses for battle, and then left to find his fortune in London giving riding lessons and putting on exhibitions of trick riding. In doing so he came up with a formula for entertaining thousands, with his demonstrations of clowning on horseback, juggling, rope walking and...
This is the story of one of the most famous and popular entrepreneurs of the 18th Century - a man dubbed "the father of the modern circus." Philip Ast...
