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The Greatest Showman? Pablo Fanque and the Black British Circus by Charlotte Bookham
The year is 1847. You have just squeezed into your bench at the top of Astley’s Amphitheatre in Lambeth, jostled by the eager crowd as they peer into the ring below you. The smell of sawdust, sweat…
