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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Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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The men who meddled with nature
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
Catalogue
- Books
Exotic diseases of animals : a manual for diagnosis / editor, D.T. Oxer.
Date: 1972- Books
Beastly London : a history of animals in the city / Hannah Velten.
Velten, HannahDate: 2013- Books
Menagerie : the history of exotic animals in England, 1100-1837 / Caroline Grigson.
Grigson, Caroline, 1935-Date: 2016- Books
The tiger that swallowed the boy : exotic animals in Victorian England / John Simons.
Simons, John, 1955-Date: 2012- Ephemera
- Online
Stop circus suffering now / Animal Defenders.
Date: [2002?]