In 1835 South Durham MP Joseph Pease succeeded in getting a Bill passed in Parliament ending bull baiting, dog fighting and cock fighting. But the annual Bull run in Stamford was to continue.  Here I consider this, how this was resisted and then consider the consequences of a recent occurrence of a young bull running through the middle of Birmingham.

Every so often I will publish material that did not  make the script of “Marsh Fen and Town”. The following published in 1801 [i] is an...

It is with great horror that I perceive the task of healthy pigs being culled on farms for economic reasons. It is bad enough for a...