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Cathedral cat Hodge leaning on a pile of my "Cats in Medieval Manuscripts" books while I presented "Bagpiping and coffee-making cats: Performing felines in history" at Southwark Cathedral today!

Composer & suffragette Ethel Smyth, in characteristic dress & pose, with one of her Old English Sheepdogs, all named Pan, in 1927 (now National Portrait Gallery). She wrote a book, ‘Inordinate (?) Affection’: A Story for Dog Lovers’, about 5 of her dogs including Pan IV who was her favourite.

It is famously said that Ginger Rogers did everything the great Fred Astaire did just “backwards and in high heels”…. Well. Here is Esther Stace in 1915 clearing a record 6'6" at the Sydney Royal Show…. RIDING SIDESADDLE.

Happy #MothersDay! 🐶😸 #PetsOfTwitter

Fabulous picture of Radcyffe Hall & Una Troubridge - exhibitors’ numbers stuck to their fedoras - with their dachshunds Thorgils and Wotan. Taken at the Brighton Championship Dog Show in the early 1920s. Now ransomcenter

Very exciting to have two giants of Modern British History with us at the cultural history seminar tonight, Julie-Marie Strange and Jane Hamlett, talking about pets & families

It was a great paper, especially showing how pets could queer ideas of family, for those living outside heteronormative structures, & even within it. Took in some great taxidermy advice along the way (basically, don't stuff your pets, they're never so cute after death!)

For #LesbianVisbilityWeek here’s a fabulous picture from 1939 of the writer Bryher, who was the partner of modernist poet H.D., the Austrian-American psychoanalyst Christine Olden, and a very important cocker spaniel (NOW BeineckeLibrary) #LGBWithTheT

SocialHistorySociety @Tyler_Rainford Imogen Peck Jane Hamlett Rebecca Preston Joe Moran Historians @ Bristol History Department Newly Published: Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway History Department) and Rebecca Preston, '‘Noisy, Despotic, Fascinating’: Siamese Cats and Emotional and Domestic Life in Twentieth-Century Britain' #OpenAccess tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @UoMhistdept is proud to release an interview with Professors Julie-Marie Strange (Durham History) and Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway History Department) on their wonderful new book The Pet Revolution! 👇sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

Any idea what this mystery skull might be from? A fantastic guest mystery object from Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA paoloviscardi.com/2023/04/28/fri…

PETS #ThinkingAllowed BBC Sounds Jane Hamlett on the British love affair with pets🐈🐹🦜Jessica Amberson on what it means to be a ‘dog person’ 🐶bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Listen to Reaktion Books #author Jane Hamlett talk to Laurie Taylor on BBC Sounds Radio 4: Thinking Allowed bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… about her study of the British love affair with #pets over the last two centuries. #history #animallover 🐕 🐈 🐇 🦜🐀 🐍 Produced by Jayne Egerton

Please do join us for the launch of Pet Revolution - with me, Julie-Marie Strange, Helen Cowie ⁦York University⁩ and Diana James ⁦⁦BlueXPublicAffairs⁩ - in conversation on histories of animals in British life - online Fri Nov 24. ⁦⁦ eventbrite.co.uk/e/pet-revoluti…

Please see our 2024 call for shorter “snapshots” articles (2,000 words) on the topics listed below. It’s a great opportunity to introduce yourself to your field as an Early Career Researcher. It’s also a platform for more established academics to present shorter case studies 😎

Please join us for the online book launch for Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories (Penn State University Press, Animalibus, 2023), ed. by Kaori Nagai on Dec 8, 2-3pm, 2023 (GMT) With Prof Santanu Das (Oxford) and Dr. Sarah Wade (UEA) To register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

New podcast from @janehamlett and JM Strange talking about the history of pets on the New Books Network newbooksnetwork.com/pet-revolution…