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… Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015), p. 193. The Sociability of Travelling Menageries: Gilbert Pidcock’s Well-Behaved Exotic Animals Apart from royal menageries providing entertainment and prestige, a peculiar place of sociability was the travelling menagerie, also known as the Beast Show, described as an itinerant animal exhibition run by showmen whose aim was to entertain ordinary people. Of all better-known travelling showmen, Polito, Ballard, Miles and Wombwell, Gilbert Pidcock from Derbyshire appears to be the most …
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