According to my research, the Great Bustard was still pretty well recorded in Britain 250-500 years ago. It was hunted to extinction in the nineteenth century, but has since been reintroduced in Wiltshire.
I wonder if all the birds in the eastern Fen counties got soggy bums! - I don't think they are very waterproof birds! 😹​🦃
(Map from my Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife)​
#extinction #Britishbirds #bustard #ornithology #animalhistory #histodon

Hi everyone, today is the day my book, THE ATLAS OF EARLY MODERN WILDLIFE is published. 🙀💚

The Atlas catalogues the state of nature in Britain and Ireland during the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries. 🐺🦫🦅🦃🐳🐟🐢🐍🦞🦐

It's taken me five years to get to this point! The Atlas is based on over 10,000 records from 200+ primary sources (essentially books written in the time period)!

#biodiversity #extinction #wildlife #earlymodern #histodons #AnimalHistory #HistoricalEcology #HGIS #envhist

Another very interested hybrid event sending out their CFP for all my animal history and environmental friends:
"Extinction, Endangerment, and Environmental Storytelling,"
#histodons #envhist #envhistodons #animalhistory

Daniella M out here with so many great books to review for H-Net - infrastructure! electricity! animals! hydroenvironments (which is not a word apparently)! art! computing! - I have to have another link to Twitter for you: https://twitter.com/farsouthhistory/status/1678747679004803076?s=20
#envhist #envhistodons #histodons
Is #animalhistory a thing? IT should be a thing, I think...

Amateur naturalists still recorded wolves in the early modern period around Sutherland, and in the west of Ireland, but not England or Wales where they seem to have already gone extinct. 🐺​💔​

But of course, there are legends of wolves living much later than that, and in very different areas! And I have a bit of research coming out later this month which describes what happened when they went extinct in England :abunhdhappyhop:​

#AnimalHistory #EarlyModern #wolves #histodons #ecology #mammals

After the Norman Conquests in Britain and Ireland, Rabbits were commonly kept in artificial warrens for meat and fur. 🐇
By the period that I study (250-500 years ago) Rabbits were widespread in England. Strangely though, they still had a mainly coastal distribution around Scotland, Ireland and Wales until much later. :abunhdsadpat:​
Map from my forthcoming book. :blobbunblush:​
#Rabbits #mammals #AnimalHistory #EarlyModern #Histodons #ecology

The more I learn about Harry Harlow, who is so infamous for his experiments on isolation & deprivation in monkeys, the more I am surprised by just how much of an arsehole he was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harlow #animalhistory

Just a German book about bugs from around 1800. Big bugs. Small bugs. Weird bugs. All of them. A bug world.

This one is for #animalhistory and #bookhistory nerds alike. #histodons

The bug book (in German: Abbildungen der Wanzen) was written by Johann Friedrich Wolf and published by Johan Jacob Palm in #Erlangen. Have a look at the digital copy:

https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN1764054512

RT @LenaHolzberger
Two years ago, in a chat during a zoom conference, we came up with the idea to organize a conference on human-animal relations in Russian Empire / Soviet Union. I am happy to finally share our call! #twitterstorians #humananimalstudies #animalhistory https://twitter.com/hsozkult/status/1619050981685137410

It is important wo have a good story on more than one level. This print chose a story of a horseman meeting thousands of mice in battle formation near #Hannover. This is a good start, as everyone has seen a battle formation - and mice. #animalhistory #histodons

Bonus detail: a rat as a colonel ("Feld-Obrister").

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How to sell a #broadside in early modern Germany?

Have a look at this single-sheet print of 1675 and discover a story of mice in battle formation including a religious comment. A thread for #bookhistory, #mediahistory and #animalhistory. #histodons #history

Access the print here: https://t1p.de/pjk1

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Jetzt auf der AfA Webseite online: Text von Peter Moser zu den Versuchen, „multifunktionale Tiere in monofunktionale Projektionsflächen zu transformieren“: https://histoirerurale.ch/pdfs/Moser_Grenzen2021.pdf
#SwissHistory #ruralhistory #histCH #archivCH #animalhistory #HumanAnimalStudies #HorseHistory

A German soldier and his son on a horse decorated with a garland during a parade of returning troops in Berlin, December 1918.

📷 IWM Q 110890 #Horse #WW1 #MilitaryHistory #Histodons #AnimalHistory @histodons @militaryhistory

Good to know for dog lovers: "a most beautiful dog", from Greenland, was exhibited in England in late eighteenth-century. This printed handbill was sure: the dog is "striking every Spectator with Astonishment". #animalhistory #dogcontent #histodons

Source: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/07a9b6da-5f92-452d-9a1e-5ab55b4c1987/

Good to know for dog lovers: "a most beautiful dog", from Greenland, was exhibited in England in late eighteenth-century. This printed handbill was sure: the dog is "striking every Spectator with Astonishment". #animalhistory #dogcontent #histodons

Source: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/07a9b6da-5f92-452d-9a1e-5ab55b4c1987/

I’m gonna be talking about the historicity of meat #animalhistory #animalstudies #histodons

Ich werde etwas über zwangsrekrutierte Hunde und NS-Rassenidelogie erzählen #animalhistory #Tiergeschichte #animalstudies

Early in the war around 50% of BEF horse casualties were attributed to preventable causes. Veterinary officers were thus urged that they must 'lose no opportunity to preach the word of horse management'

#WarHorseWednesday 📷H. S. Stanham, 1914 IWM Q 109644 #Horses #AnimalHistory #FirstWorldWar #WW1 #Histodons @histodons @militaryhistory

A wounded mule of one of the ammunition supply companies of the 2nd Polish Corps. Cassino sector, May 1944.

📷IWM MH 1593 #MuleMonday #WW2 #AnimalHistory #Histodons #Mules #Muli #SecondWorldWar @histodons @militaryhistory

http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-131240 off to this really interesting conference on the history of the global animal trade. Also looking forward to meet @rhoelzl and @rafdebont again! #animalhistory #animalstudies #envhist