This genuine flea circus sees some very big fleas pulling various miniature vehicles across a table.
Tag: Entertainment
World’s First Beatboxing Champion
This is the world’s first beatboxing champion in 1938.
How to make a Mancala Game
Have a go at making your own Mancala board with this fun make and do from the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Bush TV22 television set
In the 1950s this is what televisions looked like, and were pre-tuned to only one channel.
Poster advertising a performing elephant at Sanger’s Grand National Amphitheatre, London
This circus had a permanent location at the Astley Amphitheatre on Westminster Bridge Road in London.
Dolls’ house of Petronella Oortman
All the contents have been designed to be exactly the right size for the house and are made out of the same materials.
Secrets of the Flea Circus
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
This piece of music, written by Benjamin Britten, was designed to help kids learn about orchestras.
The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic
Spiritualism, the belief that the living could contact the dead, was popular in England in the mid 19th C. People attempt to contact the spirit world through things like furniture.
Circus poster: Van Amburgh, New Feats with the Bengal Tiger!!
This poster for Astley’s Circus puts the emphasis on the circus’s star performer, Isaac Van Amburgh. Reputedly the first person to stick his head between a lion’s jaws in the name of entertainment