Travelling showfolk have been entertaining Scots for centuries and
a visit to 'the shows' was a highlight of the year until recent
memory. The Codonas are one of the longest and most established
show families, having arrived from the continent in the late
eighteenth century. The book is based almost entirely on original
research and draws on interviews with three generations to give a
vivid and richly anecdotal account of this ever-changing world.
Illustrations, mostly previously unpublished, enhance the text. The
interviews have been kept intact as much as possible, to keep the
flow of overlapping individual life stories but are organised
chronologically from the 1890s, when it enters living memory, up to
the present. The hundred years from 1790 are described in a lively
introduction including many first-hand accounts and following the
family fortunes in the United Kingdom, the United States where
members reached the top of the circus profession and as far afield
as Hawaii.
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