Anyone who has ever listened to The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band–and that’s a few hundred million people at the last estimate–will know the swirling melody and appealingly ...

It was 20 years ago today Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play and it will be 50 years ago this year that the Beatles first recorded their epic concept album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

A blue plaque has been unveiled in Leeds for the man believed to be the first black circus owner in Britain. Pablo Fanque's travelling circus toured Victorian Britain, wowing audiences with tight-rope ...

Scherrikar Bell: This great showman astounded the Victorians and even inspired a song by the Beatles. Pablo's travelling circus was amongst the most famous of the Victorian age. His shows pulled ...

He was one of 19th-century England’s most famous circus owners and greatest showmen. Pablo Fanque put on some of the era’s most lavish spectacles in some of its grandest big tops. As an acrobat and ...

The fascinating story behind Britain's first black circus owner will be told in Leeds as a prestigious blue plaque is unveiled in his honour. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Five groups of young people across Greater Manchester have taken part in creative ...

Snubbed once again by the editors of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, I find myself seeking an identity. You'd have thought that with more than 61,400 pages to fill, something brief and ...

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