The latest issue of the NCB's newsletter Biography Footnotesis now available on the web. Read about our latest staff news as well as conferences recently held and forthcoming; Mark St Leon, a descendant of one of Australia's great circus families discusses the difficulties of writing the biographies of circus people; the ANU's Chancellor, Gareth Evans, launches Jim Davidson's biography of Sir Keith Hancock, one of the founders of the ADB, while Janet Doust reviews the five short-listed Magarey Medal biographies.