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The splendour of Blackpool Tower ballroom provides a backdrop to Vanessa Toulmin and Philip Esler, chief executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Professor Toulmin, research director of the National Fairground Archive at the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Sheffield, received ?178,000 from the AHRC for a project on the history of fairground, music hall, circus and seaside entertainments and the revitalisation of Blackpool's entertainment and cultural industries. Blackpool Council contributed a further ?25,000 to the project.