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The Animal History Group (🌐 animalhistorygroup.org) is an independent international research network for students, academics and other professionals whose work engages with animals in history. Posts currently by leafyhistory.bsky.social.
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d
Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri...
And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚
Seminar Series
Term One Our Seminar Series is back for 2025/2026. Seminars will be held at 8pm (GMT). Please sign up using the links below. Joining information will be sent shortly before the event. 15 October 20…
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History Channel @historyachannel.bsky.social · 15h
In 1881, the London Zoo opened the world’s first public insect house, shifting attention from charismatic megafauna to the tiny creatures that shape ecosystems—marking a turning point in how museums educate about biodiversity #AnimalsHistory
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 1d
Our first online Animal History seminar this term is 8pm next Wed:
Miriam Borgia - 'Defining Animal Well-Being: Sciences and Practices of Care in Italian Animal Husbandry'.
Free entry, all welcome. 🐮💚
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ahg-semina...?
#AnimalHistory #VeterinaryHistory #RuralHistory
"Defining Animal Well-Being: Sciences and Practices of Care in Italian Animal Husbandry Miriam Borgia, University of Bologna and EHESS-CRH, Paris At the end of the eighteenth century in parts of Italian territory, following the French model, the first veterinary medicine schools were established to address the recurrent epizootics. This constituted not only a hygienic concern, but also an economic imperative. Within this context, and with increasing emphasis throughout the nineteenth century, it became progressively evident that a productive animal, particularly in the case of cattle, was primarily a healthy animal. However, how was one to define a healthy animal? And what was the tension between care and exploitation? In this contribution, I will examine how veterinarians, small-scale farmers, and zootechnics sought to establish this definition through considerations of nutrition, reproduction, and behavior. Knowledge and practices concerning animal well-being were experimented with in the stables, with particular attention to illumination, ventilation, and temperature control. They also emerged through veterinary care, administered by empirical practitioners or trained veterinarians, and through the challenges inherent in selecting and improving local breeds. Ultimately, the treatment provided to animals directly influenced the quality of derived products (most notably milk and meat). Throughout the nineteenth century, animal husbandry became distinct from agriculture and by century's end some zootechnics asserted that livestock farming was no longer merely a "necessary evil" – that is, an enterprise fraught with sanitary and economic risks yet essential to agricultural practice – but rather an autonomous economic sector and a legitimate scientific discipline, whose success depended entirely upon the care accorded to animals and the application of knowledge from zootechnical and veterinary sciences."
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 2d
Our October issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology such as:

🐴 The medieval taboo of horse consumption
🦁 The Chinese origins of Venice's iconic Winged Lion statue
🧊 Tattooed ice mummies of the Siberian Altai

& much more! 🏺

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Cover of the October 2025 issue of Antiquity, featuring archaeologists excavating at an unmarked grave site.
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 2d
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d
📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...

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The Thinking Tiger @krishbohra.bsky.social · 6d
Day 66/100 of Cool Indian Wildlife History

Sumatran rhinos were generally considered to have gone extinct in India by mid-20th century. In 1996, Dr. Anwaruddin Choudhury went for research in the far-northeast of India along the border with Myanmar and discovered local reports from the region.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7d
There is a particular place in my heart for this category of historical photographs: the ones where not even time and/or the medium can stop the dog’s goofy and/or loving personality from shining through
I collect these whenever I can get them.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 7d
DOG JIM
detail from quoted post: closeup on the dog jim in an old timey photo, his head cocked at a 45 degree angle, smiling widely, with tongue lolling out delightfully
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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 13d
A sadly never-realized Pleistocene animal park in La Plata, Argentina. Article from from Fray Mocho (9 August 1912)

The animals were designed by Josef Pallenberg, who also did the dinosaur sculptures at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg

(more info in this article: doi.org/10.31048/185... )

#FossilFriday
Double page spread from an Argentinian magazine from 1912. Shows models of prehistoric animals, including a Toxodon, Macrauchenia, Mylodon, Megatherium, Mastodon, Glyptodon and sabre-toothed cap. The central image is an illustration of all the creatures standing in a landscape.
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d
On the 13th of May 2026 @ 8pm (GMT/UTC +1) Natalie Lis will be giving a talk on 'Swiftlet Climbs – Masculinity and the Nest Trade' 🪹🏚️
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AHG Seminar - 13 May: Swiftlet Climbs
Join us for our monthly seminar series.
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d
On the 15th of April 2026 @ 8pm (GMT/UTC +1 - note our clocks go forward), Mady Rodrigues-Raby will be giving a talk on Urban Exploiters: A More-Than-Animal Analysis of Raccoon Interventions in Urban Canadian Spaces 🦝🇨🇦
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AHG Seminar - 15 April: Urban Exploiters
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d
On the 18th of March 2026 @ 8pm (GMT/UTC +0) Suzanne Amy Foxley will be giving a talk on 'Materialising the Leonine Narrative' 🦁🇪🇺
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AHG Seminar - 18 March: Materialising the Leonine Narrative
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d
On the 25th of February 2026 @ 8pm (GMT/UTC +0) Laura Brown will be giving a talk on 'Challenging the ‘Voiceless Animal’: Talking Dogs and Animal Spirituality in Early-Twentieth-Century Anti-Vivisection Campaigns' 🐾🧠
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AHG Seminar - 25 February: Challenging the 'Voiceless Animal'
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d
On the 28th of January 2026 @ 8pm (GMT/UTC +0) Catriona M Paul will be giving a talk on 'The Horse Ground: Equine-Human Relationships in early Kentucky, 1760-1790' 🏇🇺🇸
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AHG Seminar - 28 January: The Horse Ground
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d
On the 10th of December 2025 @ 8pm (GMT/UTC +0), Nisha Bhakat will be giving a talk on: 'The Fall of a Florican: Two hundred years of hunting, studying, and conserving Houbaropsis bengalensis' 🪶🇮🇳
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AHG Seminar - 10 December : The Fall of a Florican
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d
On the 12th of November 2025 @ 8pm (GMT/UTC +0) (note our clocks go back), Simon Pooley (@s-pooley.bsky.social) will be giving a book release talk on DISCOVERING THE OKAPI🦓📙
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AHG Seminar - 12 November: Book Talk - Discovering the Okapi
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d
On the 15th of October @ 8pm (GMT/UTC +1), Miriam Borgia (University of Bologna and EHESS-CRH (Paris)) will be talking to us about: 'Defining Animal Well-Being: Sciences and Practices of Care in Italian Animal Husbandry' 🇮🇹💉🐄
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ahg-semina...
AHG Seminar - 15 October: Defining Animal Well-Being
Join us for our monthly seminar series.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d
Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri...
And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚
Seminar Series
Term One Our Seminar Series is back for 2025/2026. Seminars will be held at 8pm (GMT). Please sign up using the links below. Joining information will be sent shortly before the event. 15 October 20…
animalhistorygroup.org
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 16d
Any recommendations for key scholarship at the intersection of productive gardens/agriculture and health institutions like sanatoriums, leprosariums, and convalescent homes?
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Richard Carter, FCD @friendsofdarwin.bsky.social · 16d
23-Sep: On this day in 1832, young Charles Darwin made an important discovery at Punta Alta, near Bahia Blanca in Argentina: the fossil remains of what he took to be a species of rhinoceros. It was actually an extinct species of giant ground sloth, or Megatherium… #histsci
23-Sep-1832: Darwin discovers a ‘rhinoceros’
…for which, read ‘giant ground sloth’ or ‘Megatherium’.
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · Apr 4
Do note that the event will begin at 7pm UK time - and we just moved our clocks forward one hour to British Summer Time (UTC+1).

So do double-check your timings if you're based in a different time zone! This is a really handy tool to use: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/c...
Time Zone Converter – Time Difference Calculator
Find the exact time difference with the Time Zone Converter – Time Difference Calculator which converts the time difference between places and time zones all over the world.
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · Apr 4
📣 Join us online on Wednesday 16 April for a reading group led by @leafyhistory.bsky.social on the #AnimalHistory of South Africa!

All welcome, register via our website: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri...
Advert with archive image of a quagga in black and white, overlaid with white text: AHG Reading Group. On the right, blue text on a white background: Reading Group. Animal History in South Africa. Led by Dr Lee Raye, The Open University. 16 April. Online 7pm (UK time).
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Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social · Apr 3
Our special issue on Sensory Histories of the Environment is out now! With articles on moles, bats, miners, wind and wine, it's a very varied bunch 🍇 #envhist
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Apr 3
Environment and History 31.2 is available online now! This is a special issue entitled 'Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment,' edited by @gpetrick.bsky.social & @gfitz.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31/2 #envhist @eseh.bsky.social
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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · Jan 24
The AHG has moved to Bluesky! We're a predominantly online, international network, running a varied programme of seminars, conferences and other events since 2016.

We're looking forward to connecting and reconnecting here with all who are interested in animals in history!

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