{"id":2531,"date":"2017-03-25T10:15:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T10:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2017-03-25T10:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T10:15:56","slug":"reed-online-staffordshire-circus-in-newcastle-under-lyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2017\/03\/25\/reed-online-staffordshire-circus-in-newcastle-under-lyme\/","title":{"rendered":"REED Online: Staffordshire + circus in Newcastle-under-Lyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new open access &#8220;records journal&#8221; REED Online <a href=\"https:\/\/ereed.library.utoronto.ca\/collections\/staff\/\">has just released its first records set<\/a>.  The text archives for Staffordshire have been wonderfully trawled by J.A.B. Somerset, who found 186 records of early-modern popular performance, strolling players, maypoles and the like. These are now freely available and the individual records are also neatly geo-located.  <\/p>\n<p>The release comes alongside news that North Staffordshire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscouncil.org.uk\/news\/acrobatic-ambition-excellence-%E2%80%93-celebrating-250-years-modern-circus\">will aim to be the national hub<\/a> of the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/circus250.com\/\">250 years of circus<\/a> celebrations in 2018.  To achieve this, the New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme has just landed a Lottery grant of \u00a3749,000 via the Arts Council&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;to celebrate 250 years of modern circus &#8230; will include an ambitious programme of exhibitions and installations, spectacular performances and professionally-led community projects throughout the borough.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/hg-15-05207_astley20low20res20pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/hg-15-05207_astley20low20res20pic.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new open access &#8220;records journal&#8221; REED Online has just released its first records set. The text archives for Staffordshire have been wonderfully trawled by J.A.B. Somerset, who found 186 records of early-modern popular performance, strolling players, maypoles and the like. These are now freely available and the individual records are also neatly geo-located. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}