Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri... And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚

Any recommendations for key scholarship at the intersection of productive gardens/agriculture and health institutions like sanatoriums, leprosariums, and convalescent homes?

23-Sep: On this day in 1832, young Charles Darwin made an important discovery at Punta Alta, near Bahia Blanca in Argentina: the fossil remains of what he took to be a species of rhinoceros. It was actually an extinct species of giant ground sloth, or Megatherium… #histsci

📣 Join us online on Wednesday 16 April for a reading group led by @leafyhistory.bsky.social on the #AnimalHistory of South Africa! All welcome, register via our website: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri...

Our special issue on Sensory Histories of the Environment is out now! With articles on moles, bats, miners, wind and wine, it's a very varied bunch 🍇 #envhist

The AHG has moved to Bluesky! We're a predominantly online, international network, running a varied programme of seminars, conferences and other events since 2016. We're looking forward to connecting and reconnecting here with all who are interested in animals in history! animalhistorygroup.org