Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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Why “crazy cat ladies” are healthier than you may think
Writer Erica Crompton ponders the reasons behind the misogynist “crazy cat lady” trope, and reclaims cat ownership as a positive way to help restore mental equilibrium.
Catalogue
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Conceptualizing cruelty to children in nineteenth-century England : literature, representation, and the NSPCC / Monica Flegel.
Flegel, Monica.Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
Animals and society : an introduction to human-animal studies / Margo DeMello.
DeMello, MargoDate: [2012]- Books
The investigation of mind in animals / by E.M. Smith.
Smith, E. M. (Emily Mary)Date: 1915- Books
Political animals : representing dogs in modern Russian culture / by Henrietta Mondry.
Mondry, HenriettaDate: [2015]
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Plant-animals : a study in symbiosis / by Frederick Keeble.
Keeble, Frederick, Sir, 1870-1952.Date: 1910