A Decade of Delights: Celebrating the National Fairground Archive . 2004

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Paperback

20 pages plus cover

The National Fairground Archive (NFA) was inaugurated at the University of Sheffield Library in 1994, with the support of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain and the Fairground Association of Great Britain. It has grown out of research material collected by Vanessa Toulmin for her Doctor of Philosophy thesis “Fun without vulgarity: community, women and language in Showland Society” (1997), and forms a large collection of photographic, printed, manuscript and audiovisual material covering all aspects of the culture of travelling show people, their organisation as a community, their social history and everyday life; and the artefacts and machinery of fairgrounds. In addition the National Fairground Archive holds associated material in the field of popular performance culture, such as theatre, circus and early film.

This booklet was produced to showcase the first 10 years of the archive and shows many samples from the collection in context with a narrative that explains how the museum is run

In good condition.