Ep. 11 - HORRORS of the Victorian Circus

In today's episode, Genevieve talks about Victorian circus horrors; The freak shows, the fires, kidnappings, train wrecks, morbid taxidermy,– as well as PT Barnum’s American Museum of Curiosities which met a particularly tragic.Subscribe to the Newsletter!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening!References for today's episode:https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/freak-showshttps://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/septemberoctober/statement/the-circus-you-never-knewhttps://victorian-era.org/victorian-era-circus-performances.htmlhttps://boroughsofthedead.com/barnum-museum-fire-july-13-1865/https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/greatest-show-earth-freak-shows-pt-barnum-tom-thumb/https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=DMST18851009.2.46&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------https://www.historyireland.com/the-wee-est-little-man-that-ever-was-general-tom-thumb-in-ireland/https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-lost-original-madison-square-garden.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_mermaidhttps://jvc.oup.com/2021/05/20/lost-circuses-of-victorian-leeds/