Ep. 11 - Horrors of the Victorian Circus
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In today's episode, Genevieve talks about Victorian circus horrors. The freak shows, fires, riots, kidnappings, train wrecks and morbid taxidermy.
References for today's episode:
https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/freak-shows
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/septemberoctober/statement/the-circus-you-never-knew
https://victorian-era.org/victorian-era-circus-performances.html
https://boroughsofthedead.com/barnum-museum-fire-july-13-1865/
https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/greatest-show-earth-freak-shows-pt-barnum-tom-thumb/
https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=DMST18851009.2.46&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
https://www.historyireland.com/the-wee-est-little-man-that-ever-was-general-tom-thumb-in-ireland/
https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-lost-original-madison-square-garden.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_mermaid
https://jvc.oup.com/2021/05/20/lost-circuses-of-victorian-leeds/
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