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The Smallest Show on Earth Everything you wanted to know about Flea Circuses (and a lot more!)
16 November, 2024 @ 14:00 - 16:00
Saturday 16th November at 2pm at the Wyndham Hall
A totally entertaining talk by Dr Tim Cockerill who works as a scientific consultant and insect wrangler in TV and Film (including with David Attenborough) and is Senior Lecturer in Natural History at Falmouth University.
For over 150 years, audiences have been paying their sixpences to be amazed by whole troupes of real, live, performing fleas. Believe it, or not?
In this talk Tim will persuade you that the flea circus, until recently, was a 100% genuine spectacle, made up of live fleas pulling chariots, riding tricycles and even fighting duels with perfectly crafted miniature swords. Find out how the Flea Circus ‘Professors’ fed their fleas, which household appliance spelled the demise of the Flea Circus in the 1950s, and how a flea could make a Victorian lady take all of her clothes off.
Booking essential. Please email office@sanhs.org or ring 01823 272429.
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