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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.

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Perhaps Keith Thomas’s assertion that there was no concept of cruelty to animals in early modern England not only blanks-out the contradictions of that period but also helps us to blank-out the fact that we still live with these contradictions. There is, after all, nothing more reassuring than thinking that we are better humans than those men and women of the past. Nothing is more conforting than a history that allows us to mantain the status quo”.
— Erica Fudge, “Two Ethics: Killing Animals in Past and Present” in Killing Animals  The Animal Studies Group