Kristoffer's Menagerie - animal commodities, smelling and touching animals

This blog is a collection or archive of my thoughts and progress on my PhD. My research looks at animals as objects in eighteenth-century Britain. I hope this blog helps me keep track of my thoughts and records my descent into insanity as I write-up my thesis this year.

I have become interested in animal rights and veganism so my thoughts on these will appear from time to time. Recipes too, well only those that don't contain tofu or seitan.

animal commodities, smelling and touching animals

I’ve previously looked at where people could buy and look at exotic animals in eighteenth-century Britain. I’m now trying to write a history of why and when spectators started to touch and ride these animals and what they thought about their smells. I’m trying to link these sensory engagements with the history of commoditised animals.