Announcing the Programme for our Our Early Career Researcher Symposium 22 February 2024 🦋🌳🌏 Details of the programme & how to register can be found on our website shnh.org.uk/shnh-early-car…

For #WorldHippoDay we have Ernie Bowman, or 'The Professor' with Joan and Jimmy. Ernie was awarded ZSL Bronze medal 'for services rendered in the successful rearing of a young hippopotamus, 1926-27'. He reared Jimmy who was born 20th August 1926 #ThrowbackThursday

📢Call for Papers! We're still accepting proposals for our summer conference, to be held online 27-28 June 2004, and we'd love to hear from you! The deadline is two weeks today, 5 April. Full details at: animalhistorygroup.org/events/summer-… #EnvHist #AgHist #histSTM #AnimalHistory

I am *extremely* excited about this. Please share with anyone who might be keen: we're offering a FULLY FUNDED PhD studentship, exploring: Colonial Natural Historical Collecting in the South Asian Indian Ocean. There are some important stories to tell here ccc.cam.ac.uk/cc-ee/students…

CALL FOR STUDENT ESSAYS: The 2024 W. T. Stearn #Student Essay #Prize is open for submissions on topics which contribute significantly to the history of #NaturalHistory, including its social and cultural aspects 🌿🦋🌳🦭 shnh.org.uk/awards-honours…

📢Call for Papers Deadline Tomorrow! It's great to see all the abstracts coming in for our 2024 Summer Conference. If you're still planning to submit something, don't delay - the deadline is tomorrow, 5 APRIL. Full details at our website: animalhistorygroup.org/events/summer-…

If you missed our Early Career Researcher Symposium back in February, a selection of talks from that fantastic day are now available on our shiny new YouTube channel! Remember to like and subscribe to be notified of future videos... youtube.com/@SHNHSocNatHist

Our next ANIMAL HISTORY GROUP seminar is a joint seminar with SHNH really looking forward to chairing this one! All welcome #animalhistory #naturalhistory

Registration is now open for this year’s Summer Meeting “The palette of nature” @ National Museum Cardiff 13-14th June 2024. As well as 6 speaker panels there will be a conference dinner & collections tour. Full info at shnh.org.uk/the-palette-of… we hope to see you there!

📢Registration is now OPEN for our Summer Conference! We have a fabulous programme lined up, including a keynote from Professor Helen Cowie. See the full programme and register via our website: animalhistorygroup.org/events/summer-… #AnimalHistory #EnvHist #HistSTM #AgHist

SHNH is delighted to announce its 2024 Awards 🏅👏Founders' Medal - Kristin Johnson, Natural History Book award - Nicholas K. Menzies 'Ordering the Myriad Things University of Washington Press & Stearn Student Essay Prize - Mia Uys. Many congratulations 🎉 tinyurl.com/4nm4m82w

🚨Just one week left to register for this year’s Summer Meeting “the palette of nature” due to take place in Cardiff 13-14th June! shnh.org.uk/the-palette-of…

📢 #AnimalHistory Conference 🗓️ 27 and 28 June ⏰ 13.00-18.00 BST (London) 📍 Online 🎟️animalhistorygroup.org/events/summer-… Our Summer Conference is just over 3 weeks away. We'd love to see you there! #twitterstorians #histSTM #AgHist #EnvHist

Am absolutely exhausted but have had the best two days! Huge thanks to all our speakers, chairs, tour guides, friends (new and old) who made the meeting so fantastic. #SHNH2024

🐦Our new Rothschild Room display looks at the unusual birds which were kept in aviaries around Tring Park and celebrates the work done today in the aviaries at Waddesdon Manor. To find out more visit ‘Flights of Fancy’ Waddesdon ow.ly/vAua50RSHoy #birds

Planning to come to #AHG24 this Thursday and/or Friday? You can register any time up until 6pm (UK) on Wednesday. We've got a fabulous online programme this year, and would love to see you there! animalhistorygroup.org/events/summer-… #AnimalHistory #HistSTM #EnvHist #AgHist #twitterstorians

#AHG24 begins in just a few hours time! It will be our eighth annual conference (and 96th ever event!) since the Animal History Group was founded in 2016. This incredible map shows all the registered locations that someone has joined one of our events from. Thank you all!

There’s still time to enter this year’s W.T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 🏆 The winner receives £300 and the chance to see their work published in our journal, Archives of Natural History (Edinburgh University Press). More info: shnh.org.uk/news/call-for-… Completed entries to [email protected]

Eschewing its usual sensationalist fare, the Illustrated Police News, 21 August 1924, chose to focus on an elephant who helped herself 'to an enormous meal' whilst staying at an inn in Gainsborough bit.ly/3Ap91Ob #OTD #1924Newspapers