Ida St Leon
A cousin of mine, three generations back, Ida St Leon (1894-1961). After a career as a circus acrobat, wirewalker [...]
The St. Leons at Coney Island | An Oral History by Mark St. Leon
Listen Now - Coney Island History Project. Mark St. Leon is an Australian circus historian whose family performed in [...]
The Legend of ‘The Golden Horseshoes of Beechworth’: The Evidence Considered
The complete article can be found here.
Presence, Prestige and Patronage: Circus Proprietors and Country Pastors in Australia, 1847–1942
The complete article can be found here.
Travelling Shows & Early Goulburn, Part 4
In April 1856, Goulburn was visited by Ashton's Circus as it made its way to Burrowa, Camden, Penrith and [...]
Travelling Shows & Early Goulburn, Part 3
By early 1853, about 100 people were starting down the Port Phillip Road from Sydney every [...]
La Merveilleuse Histoire du Cirque
I recently acquired this beautiful two-volume set La Merveilleuse Histoire du Cirque in an online auction. Written by the French [...]
Carte-de-visites from the 1880’s
A correspondent recently gave me these carte-de-visites of two circus girls taken in Australia in the [...]
Travelling Shows & Early Goulburn, Part 2
In the spring of 1850, La Rosiere, Jones and troupe returned overland from Maitland to Sydney [...]
The Wedding of Cooke & King
The wedding of John Welby Cooke and Edith ‘Edie’ Amelia King at Charters Towers, Queensland, on 17 August 1901, [...]
