Records of the Circus Club

Records of the Circus Club, consisting of:  

• Candidates' book, ca. 1920-56
• Attendance books, 1920-71
• Miscellaneous papers, including: printed pamphlet, War aims (London, n.d.); printed Rules of the Circus (London [1924]); xerographic copy of typescript account of the club by H.G. Strauss, 1st Baron Conesford, 1971; and typescipt list of members, 1959

The Circus Club was a London dining club founded in 1920.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk).

The papers were given to the Library in 1972.

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 44140-5.