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Photoblog: The Pet Cemetery at Asnières-sur-Seine
In 1899 feminist writer Marguerite Durand and lawyer Georges Harmois opened a pet cemetery at Asnières-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris. Dead dogs and other pets could now “rest in peace” on the...
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Photoblog: Taxidermy Dog Heads
Fellow environmental historian Erin Gill recently sent me some photos of taxidermy dog heads that she recently took at the Horniman Museum in south London. They’re so interesting and unexpected that I...
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Dog for dinner: Paris 1871
The French eating of dogs became a minor controversy in 2001 when actress and animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot criticised Koreans for eating dog meat. ‘Doctor Dogmeat’ wrote a strong rebuttal...
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Killing Stray Dogs in early 19th century New York
I’m off to New York later this week to research the history of dogs in the “Big Apple” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for my book project on the transnational history of dogs in...
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Guest Photo Blog: Bibi the Stuffed Dog
Guest Photo Blog by Julia Courtney Photo by Julia Courtney Bubi or Bobby was the dog of Bulgarian national poet novelist and dramatist Ivan Vazov, 1850 -1921. When the author died in September 1921...
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Dogs in 1668, the Year of the Animal
This week we’re commemorating the end of the first animal-human blood transfusions in 1668, with the death of a dog and a patient, and a resulting trial condemning transfusion in France until the early...
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