Social History
- The Victorians and Animals: An Introduction
- Part I: Animals as Part of the Household
- Part II: Animals in Entertainment
- Part III: Studying Animals
- Part IV: Working Animals
- Part V: Animal Rescue
- The Birmingham Dog Show (1874)
- Castle Canines: Queen Victoria's Dogs
- The Duchess of Newcastle as a Dog-Show Exhibitor
- H.H. Princess Sophie Duleep-Singh as a Dog-Show Exhibitor
- The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain, by Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange and Neil Pemberton (Review)
- The Pug Who Bit Napoleon: Animal Tales of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Mimi Matthews (Review)
- Is Torture for a Good End Justifiable? (Anti-Vivisection argument by Mona Caird)
Science
- Charles Darwin, Biology and Evolution (sitemap)
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Ornithologists (sitemap)
- Alfred Russel Wallace's "On the Law which has Regulated the Introduction of New Species (1855)
Animals in the Arts
Individual painters who chose animal subjects
Individual illustrators/caricaturists who chose animal subjects
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Created 21 September 2020
Last modified 17 November 2023