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The History of Opposition to Blood Sports in Twentieth Century England: Hunting at Bay book cover

1st Edition

The History of Opposition to Blood Sports in Twentieth Century England Hunting at Bay

By Michael Tichelar Copyright 2017
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge
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An interdisciplinary social history, this book examines the major pressures and influences that brought about the remarkable growth of opposition to hunting in twentieth century England. With public opinion consistently deciding from the middle of the century onward that hunting mammals for sport was cruel and unacceptable, it would appear that the controversy over hunting has all but been... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: The Historical Setting

1. Opposition to hunting – chronology, debates and vitriol.

2. ‘All Heaven in a Rage’: opposition to hunting before 1900

Part II: From 1900 to 1970

3. Changing public opinion

4. The influence of pressure groups: the battle for the soul of the RSPCA .

5. ‘Putting Animals into Politics’: the parties, electoral geography and changes in the Countryside

6. Anthropomorphism: The representation of hunting in visual culture

7. The hunter and the hunted: their representation in literature

Part III: The 1970s and thereafter

8. From animal welfare to animal rights?: philosophy, feminism and science.

9. ‘Hounds Off Our Wildlife’: the origins and influence of the hunt saboteurs.

10. ‘Hunting at Bay’ – the ban and thereafter.

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

　

　

Biography

Michael Tichelar is a visiting research fellow in History at the University of the West of England, where he obtained his Ph.D. He is retired from academic life and a career in local government. He lives in Bath and is a psychotherapist working as a school counsellor. He has published a range of scholarly articles on the Labour Party and land reform, including two on the history of opposition to hunting in twentieth century England.

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