In my own research on the history of the 19th-century circus, I spend a lot of time in archives where I regularly come across vintage photos of clowns. Now, I don't consider myself afraid of clowns.

Today’s creepy clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.

Today’s creepy clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.

In my own research on the history of the 19th-century circus, I spend a lot of time in archives where I regularly come across vintage photos of clowns. Now, I don't consider myself afraid of clowns.

Don’t send in the clowns: Creepy clown emerged from crass, bawdy circuses of the 19th century. Madeline Steiner, University of South Carolina for The Conversation.

Probably in the 19th century, Hoyle guessed, until a search of the local newspapers revealed that such a tusk had been discovered in Scarborough in 1959. It had duly joined the one already held by ...

In my own research on the history of the 19th-century circus, I spend a lot of time in archives where I regularly come across vintage photos of clowns. Now, I don’t consider myself afraid of clowns.

In my own research on the history of the 19th-century circus, I spend a lot of time in archives where I regularly come across vintage photos of clowns. Now, I don’t consider myself afraid of clowns.