Sniffing the Past
Dogs and History. My name is Chris Pearson and I am a Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century History at the University of Liverpool, UK. I'm currently researching the history of dogs in modern London, New York and Paris. This research will eventually morph into a book.
In this blog, I present aspects of this research, as well as more general reflections about dogs in history. The blog also features guest blogs.
Recent posts
- Lost Dogs and the Law in Modern Britain
- Empire, race and canine training: dogs as racial weapons in the twentieth century
- Caribbean Canines & Legacies of the British Empire
- Kurowera kumbwa (to beat others through/on the dog): Sniffing through the Zimbabwean archives for ‘stray dogs’
- Riley the Museum Dog
- Remaking zoöpolis: an appreciation
- On the Trail of Dogs in Colonial India
- Killing Off India’s Dogs is Not the Way to Get Rid of its Rabies Problem
- The Politics of poilus’ Pet Dogs, 1914-1918
- Dogs in 1668, the Year of the Animal