![Book cover image. Title reads Opulence and Ostentation in ornate gold font. A subtitle reads Building the Circus. The background image is a photo of the inside of a circus building, with red seats and a red ring floor among gold ornamentation](https://thecircusdiaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Opulence-and-Ostentation-Cover-Draft-v3-Steve-Ward-721x1030-1.jpeg)
Book review: ‘Opulence and Ostentation: Building the Circus’, by Steve Ward
by Katharine Kavanagh,Book review: ‘Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s: Femininity, Celebrity and Glamour’, by Kate Holmes
by Katharine Kavanagh,‘Contemporary Circus’, by Katie Lavers, Louis Patrick Leroux and Jon Burtt
by Katharine Kavanagh,![](https://thecircusdiaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/capture-1-e1531315768521-322x360.jpg)
‘Aerialist’, by Rebecca Truman
by Dr Tina Carter,![](https://thecircusdiaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/big-top-typewriter-333x360.jpg)
‘Big Top Typewriter’, by David Lewis Hammarstrom
by Katharine Kavanagh,![](https://thecircusdiaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/circus-book-435x360.jpg)