Movers and Shapers

The Animal History Group was founded in 2016 by the conveners, who were working on an eclectic range of topics within animal history.  The history of animals is a broad-ranging field, which draws unexpected connections between different subjects and facilitates new understandings. Yet this very diversity can mean that researchers in different areas are unaware of each others’ work. We intend for the Animal History Group to continue to provide a forum for animal historians to meet and exchange knowledge, thus reaching new insights and making new links within the discipline.Convenors:Dr Elle Larsson completed her PhD, ‘Collecting, Curating and Construction of Zoological Knowledge: Walter Rothschild’s Zoological Enterprise, c.1878-1937’, at King’s College London in April 2020. Continuing with her research, Elle has since been working on several articles, thinking about future projects and devoting her time to her role on the Council for the Society for the History of Natural History. Elle is one of the co-founders of the Animal History Group.Dr Felicity McWilliams completed her PhD at King’s College London in 2020, with a thesis entitled ‘Equine Machines: Horses and Tractors on British Farms c.1920-1970’. A museums professional prior to her doctoral project, Felicity was the curator of two new permanent galleries at the the Museum of English Rural Life in 2016. She is currently the Research Assistant for Science & Industry at Birmingham Museums Trust. Felicity is one of the co-founders of the Animal History Group.Alison Skipper is a veterinary surgeon with a particular interest in the medical history of the pedigree dog. She is a Wellcome Trust funded PhD student at KCL, working on ‘Form, function and fashion: health, disease and pedigree dog breeding in the twentieth century’. Alison is one of the co-founders of the Animal History Group.Nicole Gosling is a PhD student at University of Lincoln. She is currently working in collaboration with an inter-disciplinary team of scholars on the Wellcome trust-funded FIELD project (Farm-level Interventions in Endemic Livestock Disease). Her role is to examine the history of lame sheep, focusing on how definitions of lameness and ways of responding to it have changed since 1947, in relation to developments in veterinary science and practice, farming communities and education, agricultural economics and politics, and methods of breeding, keeping and relating to sheep.Scott Hunter is a PhD student at King’s College London working in partnership with the National Horseracing Museum. His project, ‘Animal Celebrity and Mass Spectatorship in British Horseracing, c. 1918 – 2018’, examines the meaning of sporting celebrity for racehorses and the changing nature of public-racehorse relationships as new ways of viewing sport emerged throughout the 20th century.

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Join us online on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 June for our eighth annual Animal History Group conference!

PLEASE NOTE: Ticket sales have been temporarily re-opened this morning to allow for last-minute registrations. Sales will close at 12.00 noon (UK time) precisely. If you register in this window of time, you will receive your meeting links for the event by 12.30pm today. Thank you for your interest in the event. --Join us for our eighth Animal History Group conference! We’ll have four panels of diverse papers on the theme of Movers and Shapers, with a keynote lecture from Professor Helen Cowie. The event will run on the afternoons of both days (UK time).Since the pandemic Animal History Group events have been wonderfully international, and we hope that this year's online conference will continue that trend. Whilst an online event collapses the barrier of physical distance, however, it also unfortunately expounds the barrier of time zones! The programme is given in UK timings, but we hope that, wherever you’re based, there will be parts you’ll be able to join us for, if not all.Meeting links will be sent directly to all registered attendees before the event.The registration fee for the conference is £5. As an independent organisation without an institutional affiliation the registration fee will help us secure the funds needed to meet our running costs (zoom and website licenses) for the 2024/2025 series of events. Your support is greatly appreciated.The full programme is available on our website at: <a href="https://animalhistorygroup.org/events/summer-conferences/summer-conference-2024/" title="https://animalhistorygroup.org/events/summer-conferences/summer-conference-2024/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://animalhistorygroup.org/events/summer-conferences/summer-conference-2024/</a>

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