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Educational publications, advertisements, informational pamphlets, correspondence, subscription forms and ephemera related to animal rights and animal welfare, especially anti-vivisection. This collection appears to originate from the West of England, with a particular focus on the Manchester area. However, the collection also contains material from throughout the United Kingdom and a few materials from the United States. Most of the material was produced and distributed by organizations such as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports, National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports, the Victoria Street Society for the Abolition of Vivisection, and others. Also included are Catholic, Quaker, and other religious pamphlets. The collection contains items written by Frances Power Cobbe, Henry Stephens Salt, H. E. Bates, George Bernard Shaw, and H. G. Wells. Members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia Woolf and Clive Bell who are listed as subscribers to some groups, are represented here. There is also material related to and designed by cartoonist and animal rights activist Cyril Kenneth Bird, who went by the pen name 'Fougasse.' The material ranges in date from the 1870s to the 1950s and includes a quantity of material from the interwar period and the era surrounding and following World War II.
Although anti-vivisection and animal rights were a concern in the United Kingdom as early as the eighteenth century, the first anti-cruelty law, "The Animal Protection Act" was passed in 1822, outlawing cruelty to cattle, horses, and sheep. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was formed two years later and had the distinction of being the first animal welfare society in the world. In 1840, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals received the support of Queen Victoria and adopted the name the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Anti-vivisection movements increased in response to an increase in scientific and medical experimentation with mammals in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Despite the commonly held belief that animal rights reemerged as a primary concern in the 1970s, groups advocating for the rights and well-being of animals continued from the nineteeth century into the era following World War II with little stagnation.
Though anti-vivisection and animal rights were a concern in the United Kingdom as early as the eighteenth century, the first anti-cruelty law, "The Animal Protection Act" was passed in 1822, outlawing cruelty to cattle, horses, and sheep. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was formed two years later and had the distinction of being the first animal welfare society in the world. In 1840, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals received the support of Queen Victoria and adopted the name the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Anti-vivisection movements increased in response to an increase in scientific and medical experimentation with mammals in the later half of the nineteenth century. Despite the commonly held belief that animal rights reemerged as a primary concern in the 1970s, groups advocating for the rights and well-being of animals continued from the nineteeth century into the era following World War II with little stagnation.
Educational publications, advertisements, informational pamphlets, correspondence, subscription forms and ephemera related to animal rights and animal welfare, especially anti-vivisection. This collection appears to originate from the West of England, with a particular focus on the Manchester area. However, the collection also contains material from throughout the United Kingdom and a few materials from the United States. Most of the material was produced and distributed by organizations such as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports, National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports, the Victoria Street Society for the Abolition of Vivisection, and others. Also included are Catholic, Quaker, and other religious pamphlets. The collection contains items written by Frances Power Cobbe, Henry Stephens Salt, H. E. Bates, George Bernard Shaw, and H. G. Wells. Members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia Woolf and Clive Bell who are listed as subscribers to some groups, are represented here. There is also material related to and designed by cartoonist and animal rights activist Cyril Kenneth Bird, who went by the pen name 'Fougasse.' The material ranges in date from the 1870s to the 1950s and includes a quantity of material from the interwar period and the era surrounding and following World War II.
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[Identification of item], Animal Rights and Animal Welfare Pamphlets, MC 00456, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Purchased from Deborah Coltham Rare Books and Fishburn Books, 2012.
Processed by Kelsey Chandler. January 2013; finding aid created by Kelsey Chandler, January 2013; updated by Jennifer Baker May 2018
Includes medical observations on vaccination and disease.
Includes article about use of erroneous germ theory in treatment of venereal disease and information on vaccination.
Includes information on vaccination and a brief article on aging.
Reprinted from The Daily Mail's Don't spare the rod if it will save the birds by Pat Murphy.
Reprinted from The Zoophilist, January 1st, 1892.
By Leading Authorities.
This leaflet is not mentioned on The Order Of the Golden Age's current website or open library's catalog of Oldfield's publications.
Reprinted from The Echo, May 27th, 1899.
Includes pasted-in 'notes to handbook' on back cover.
From a leaflet issued by the Millennium Guild, of New York City. This article by the late J. Howard Moore, author of The New Ethics, The Universal Kinship and Better World Philosophy, was first published by the Guild in 1912.
These are partial issues, many pages are missing and/or mixed up
Includes section on the language of pain, lameness
Note in ink: please see back page
Note in pencil reads proof in this type?
Pencil mark initial in right upper corner of cover
Includes printed petition to end hare-hunt at Eton, signatories include: Sir Hesketh Bell, Algernon Blackwood, Miss Marjorie Bowen [pseudonym?], Lord Olivier [uncle to Lawrence Olivier], Eden Phillpotts, Bertrand Russell, The Hon. V. [Vita] Sackville-West, Siegfried Sassoon, The Bishop of Southwark, Hugh Walpole, Prof. F.E. Weiss, Mrs. Virginia Woolf, among others
Reproduced by special permission from the Sunday Express of July 24th and August 7th, 1927
Republished by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
Inscribed with compliments
Print by Neave Parker
Reprinted from and published by Progress To-day
Includes information on humane killing devices
Includes poem by Frances Power Cobbe
2 copies
2 copies
2 copies
On a note attached to this item - "Digitized by Internet Archive - HELD at Duke" jb 4-30-2018
By Francis Power Cobbe written in ink on the cover
This letter is by Miss F. P. Cobbe and appeared in the Catholic Times, March 9th, 1894.
Note in ink reads please return this keep the [illegible]
Stamped: National Anti-Vivisection Society
Reprinted by permission from the Fortnightly Review, of Oct., 1869, by the Tunbridge Wells' Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
numbered 1 on back page
Reprinted from the National Review July 1927.
Location of Society is 56 Bloomsbury Street, London; Vice-presidents of Society included A. A. Milne, Lord Olivier, Bertrand Russell, Miss V. Sackville-West, Henry S. Salt, Prof. F. E. Weiss, H. G. Wells and others; discusses stance of BBC in animal rights issues; includes list of subscriptions and donations with prominent members of area in group
Reprinted from a speech given Sunday, December 18th, 1881
No. 2 also written in pencil
Notes (Preliminary) labeled No. 1 in pencil
Originally stapled, only includes first page
Includes a loose flyer Withdraw the Pit Ponies
Founded and directed by L. Lind-af-Hageby
Reprinted from The Echo
ULAWS Monograph 4a
Reprinted from The Standard of March 27 and 28 1912
2 copies
Reprinted from The Anti-Vivisection and Humanitarian Review, 1927
2 copies of original
Quaker document
This appears to be an excerpt of pages from a larger publication.
Reprinted from Medical World, April 6th, 1934.
Note in upper righthand of cover: P.2 Leslie Stephen Col. Evelyn Wood V.C. Rt. Hon. James Stansfield
American organization located in Washington, D.C.
Includes special offer for humane rabbit trap
Address highlighted in blue pencil
Small yellow flier included
Includes a loose 2-page flyer detailing ULAWS Third Annual Report
Pencil marked abbreviation in upper righthand corner
Labeled 1902 on front cover in pencil
By A Late Hospital Subscriber
These pages are from a larger publication
Reprinted from 1897 publication
2 copies in folder - jb 4/30/2018
Appears to be a page torn from a book, inked-in title: Why I condemn Vivisection -R.H. Perks, appears to be a correspondence from Perks giving his reason for opposition via a published text
Leaflet enclosed soliciting donations from Bert, the London Sparrow
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[Identification of item], Animal Rights and Animal Welfare Pamphlets, MC 00456, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The NC State University Libraries generally claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. Libraries staff are unable to advise on copyright and other legal matters; the user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Helpful resources for assessing copyright include Cornell Libraries' "Copyright Services: Copyright Term and the Public Domain" and copyright.gov. This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information about identifiable living individuals, which may be protected under federal or state laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that there may be legal ramifications for disclosing this information.
The University Archives operates in accordance with the State Public Records Act, with unrestricted access to records not covered by state and federal statutes and regulations.