Dr Stephanie Howard-Smith
@SAHowardSmith
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Cultural historian of dogs and their humans. PhD in 18th-century lapdogs. Instagram:@/doghistorian Mastodon:@/[email protected]
London, England
Joined March 2012
I’ve noticed that Newton the corgi is a big deal in the new season of #Bridgerton and I realised I’ve never seen a corgi mentioned in any sources from the 18th + early 19th centuries. It got me thinking…
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Some exciting news… YAP! A Short History of Small Dogs is officially on the way!.
.@GrantaBooks has won an eight-way auction for YAP! A Short History of Small Dogs, by pet historian and dog-lover Stephanie Howard-Smith. 👇
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RT @NTAssemblyRooms: Did you know, that in Dec 1915, Bath Assembly Rooms would have been full of birds? Crystal Palace was unavailable, owi….
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RT @beccbham: Next June, BECC will be twenty, and we're throwing a party! Ok, we're holding a conference. Maybe with a party. Definitely ca….
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RT @beccbham: Two more weeks to send a proposal for our big 20th anniversary conference, taking place 26-27 June 2025. If you've got a take….
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RT @qmcecs: This is tomorrow! We look forward to welcoming you online and in-person for what promises to be a cracking talk.
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RT @ZSLLibrary: #Dogs are the theme for this week's #OnlineArtExchange so we are posting these #drawings of Tibetan mastiffs, sketched by R….
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RT @UoYBorthwick: Happy #InternationalCatDay! Please enjoy Dido the cat, painted by her owner sometime in the early 19th century so we coul….
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RT @ArtHistAnimalia: This may be the first Orpheus Charming the Animals scene I’ve found with a #pangolin in attendance….Aelbert Cuyp (Dutc….
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RT @MaryRoseMuseum: We all love Hatch, but what did he look like?. We extracted DNA from his teeth and looked at the genes that code for di….
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Looks to me to be the most detailed depiction of the so-called Melitan lapdog (Melitaeus catellus) found yet!.
Delightful detail of the child's slightly vicious looking pet, described as a dog in most initial reports. (Images: Pompeii Parco Archeologico)
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RT @writingdocs: Taking us beyond the human, Stephanie Howard-Smith’s essay, '‘Take physic, Pomp’: Writing Dog Doctors in Eighteenth-Centu….
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RT @ImageoftheZebra: Wait, what's that? An animal history conference, with papers on egrets, urban pigs, tasmanian devils AND polar bears?….
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And also, in the same week, my (separate) essay on the role of fictional dog doctors in eighteenth-century satire was published in 'Myth and (mis)information', now out with @ManchesterUP. Huge thanks to @helen189 and the other editors!
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Excited that my article about c18th dog doctors is out! . Follow the link to read about Hester Piozzi’s greyhound’s diarrhoea (cured with hasty pudding + laudanum), Jonathan Swift’s 92 yr old dog doctor and John Norborn, celebrity vet to the royal family.
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Summary. The question of when dogs became the recipients of veterinary care has long been debated; current scholarship does not acknowledge the long tradit
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RT @MadameGilflurt: This #frockingfabulous 17th century frog purse is too adorable! It's believed these tiny fellows were used as a pomande….
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RT @jdmccafferty: Catherine Knollys, née Carey, Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I, who was her first cousin. (Yale Center f….
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RT @qmcecs: Our next seminar promises to be a cracker. 20 March, 17:15, Dan Sperrin (Cambridge) 'Swift and the Secret World'. In person….
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