Who writes this blog?
Me ( Chris Pearson, Professor of Environmental History at the University of Liverpool). I work on animal and environmental history and am author of Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog (Profile, 2024) and Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern London, New York and Paris (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
What’s the point of the blog?
This blog aims to uncover the role and presence of dogs in history. It’s a mixture of posts drawn from my research into dogs and the making of the modern world, with guest contributions from fellow academics working in animal studies and history. I don’t update it as much as I would like!
Who’s the blog for?
Everyone, especially those interested in dogs and/or history. Although I’m an academic, the blog is written in an accessible (i.e. non-academic) style.
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I think your blog is very interesting. I am now included in the ‘like’ Facebook – Deborah, with the horse. I will be contacting you re the Speculative lunch with regard to the meeting you had with Prof Nickie Charles.
Thanks for liking the blog, Deborah. Looking forward to hearing more about the speculative lunch. Chris
Hello Mr. Chris Pearson, I discovered your blog incidentally while searching for similar situations with actual stray dogs issues in Romania. You might know that our country have just introduced a new legislation and we’ve started gathering the feral dogs and put them to slip if not adopted within 14 days. I am curious how UK is handling this issue? I know you have lately issues with the attacks of aggressive dogs over the children, and they are even owned dogs, what is your opinion about having 2 millions stray dogs in Romania, 10 killed persons in the last period, 18K people attacked each year? The reason I am asked is we are accused being a barbarian people (mostly by British and Italian persons) but I know euthanasia is/or was (until solving the problem) applied almost in all European countries and for sure we have not the economic possibilities of keeping alive 2 millions dogs in the shelters. We would really use some advises. Thank you, IREC (please visit https://www.facebook.com/IRECROMANIA?ref=hl, http://www.irecromania.ro)
When Did you Create this website and Last Upload?
I started it in 2011. The last post was in January. Since then strikes and other work have got in the way of blogging