1976 – 2026: Marking 50 years as an animal rights activist and vegan
Join me throughout 2026 as I celebrate this milestone as a vegan and animal rights activist. I will recognise my personal commitment to animal rights as a vegan and my professional life with many of the world’s leading organisations, and now as an independent scholar and author. I will celebrate my accomplishments, including my archives with The British Library in London and Tier im Recht in Zurich. And I will also highlight the many outstanding challenges ahead.
In my 50 years as a vegan I have saved an estimated
18,255
Animal lives and improved the lives of many others
Topsy The Elephant
A Biography of an Elephant
Kim is writing the biography of Topsy, the female Asian elephant who was electrocuted to death on Coney Island, New York in 1903. The narrative is written from various sources, from fiction to contemporary science, to tell the story of an individual animal’s life and the larger view of the plight of her kind, and animals generally.
The Topsy Project
The Life and Death of an Elephant
The Topsy Project is an art-based initiative dedicated to challenging her life story—currently told as a villain who killed people—to replace it with her true story, as a victim who had to defend herself from a lifetime of abuse.
The Kim Stallwood Archive
The British Library, London
In 2020 The British Library in London established the Kim Stallwood Archive, an extensive collection of 800 organisation, people, and subject files, including correspondence, manuscripts, meeting notes, and press cuttings chronicling his involvement with the international Animal Rights Movement dating from the mid-1970s onwards as part of their modern history archive.
The Kim Stallwood Collection
Tier im Recht, Switzerland
The Swiss-based animal law foundation, Tier im Recht, acquired the Kim Stallwood Collection in 2021. The publications, audio-visual materials, artefacts, posters, and much more became part of TIR’s extensive and professionally managed library and archive. Kim’s library of more than 2,000 books is scheduled to also go to TIR’s offices in Zurich.
