Talk: Britain’s Greatest Showman

  • Date: Fri 3rd May 2024
  • Time: 2:00 pm
  • Location: Diss & District Bowls Club, Lower Denmark street, Diss IP22 4BE
  • Contact: Janet Smith: fodimus@gmail.com


George Wombwell, menagerie-owner extraordinaire’s displays of exotic and unfamiliar animals brought from abroad. For most nineteenth-century Britonsthis would have been their first encounter with animals of this kind.

Speaker: Pip Wright.

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