Helen Cowie (York), 'Doing a Roaring Trade: Travelling Menageries in C19th Britain'
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Helen Cowie is Lecturer in History at York University and the author of Conquering Nature in Spain and its Empire, 1750-1850 (Manchester University Press, 2011). Her current research project explores the collection, study and exhibition of exotic animals (c.1750-1880), how contemporaries conceptualised rare animals, where they encountered them and what symbolic, pedagogic and scientific value they attached to specimens in zoological gardens and touring menageries.
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Ann Lewis