Date and Time
November 16, 2024 - 10.15 AM to 5.30 PM
Location
Wilberforce Room, Museum of London Docklands
Timetable
- Time Content
- 10.15 Doors open: registration and displays by societies
- 11.00 Welcome and opening remarks
- 11.10-11.40 From Cockney sparrers to the parakeeting of London; the changing cultural values of the city’s birds (Mathew Frith)
- 11.45-12.15 Animals, a Soho church, and cultures of prayer and worship in twentieth-century London (Dr Joseph Hardwick)
- 12.15-12.40 Break
- 12.40-13.30 Keynote Lecture: Fantastic Beasts: regal gifts of exotic animals (Aidan Jones)
- 13.30-14.30 Lunch break
- 14.30-14.40 LAMAS Publication Awards for 2022
- 14.40-15.10 Regulating Performing Animals in London, 1889-1965 (Charlotte Hopkins)
- 15.15-15.45 The History of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home (Kat Hubschmann)
- 15.45-16.15 Refreshment break (tea and coffee provided)
- 16.15-16.45 ‘Not wholly beneath the dignity of a pig’: the provision of Turkish baths for animals in Victorian London (Malcolm Shifrin)
- 15.50-17.20 The Ninth Earl of Northumberland’s Construction of an Haute Ecole Riding Arena in London, circa. 1610 (Rob Jackson)
- 5.20-5.35 Closing remarks