More than 50 people attended ‘The Fight for Animal Rights: Kim Stallwood in Conversation’ public meeting hosted by The British Library in London on Tuesday, 16 May. The live stream… Read More
Fifty years ago, I was a student working the summer in a chicken slaughterhouse. Three years later, I was a vegan working for Compassion In World Farming and its campaigns… Read More
How to present images of animal cruelty and the identities of animal rights organisations and their activities are foremost in my mind. My formative experience was during the 1980s when… Read More
Today I launch on Patreon my Topsy the Elephant campaign. Topsy was a female Asian elephant. She was put to death at Luna Park, one of America’s first amusement parks,… Read More
The life of Topsy and the film about her electrocution are inseparable. Whether seen or not by those who know anything about her, the film has come to define her… Read More
If anyone knows anything about Topsy, it is because they saw on YouTube or heard about from someone the one-minute film of her killing, ‘Electrocuting an Elephant’, made by the… Read More
Bicentenaries don’t come around very often. And when they do, they’re unique opportunities to celebrate the past, acknowledge the present, and reach for the future. A significant animal rights bicentenary… Read More
One hundred and twenty years ago today, January 4, 1903, Topsy, a female Asian elephant, was electrocuted to death at Luna Park, one of America’s first amusement parks, on Coney… Read More
The Kim Stallwood Archive at The British Library is available to researchers via the British Library Explore Archives and Manuscripts catalogue at Add MS 89458. It currently consists of four… Read More
Two years ago today (September 28, 2020) The British Library came to my office and returned to London with 36 boxes of research materials that became the Kim Stallwood Archive.… Read More
One of my vegan fantasies is for revered organisations in the UK with plant-based missions to embrace veganism. On a recent visit to one of them, I saw my fantasy… Read More
If the past is unknown, how will we understand the future? This is a question I think about often. Not only with building a compassionate, peaceful, and just society but… Read More
Forty years ago today in 1982, 6,000 animal rights campaigners marched six miles from Salisbury, Wiltshire to Porton Down, the government’s warfare research laboratory where animals are used as research… Read More
After The British Library acquired 36 boxes of research materials in 2020 to form the Kim Stallwood Archive, there was still a considerable amount of animal rights stuff in my… Read More
Anna Malia of the North East Animal Rights (NEAR) in the UK recently interviewed me about my animal rights work. Click here on this Facebook link. On Friday, 6 May,… Read More
I don’t think the British statesman Winston Churchill had animal rights in mind when he wrote, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” But this… Read More
I recognise that I’m not the demographic who will go into a KFC to eat vegan Beyond Chicken. One of the reasons why I’m a vegan is because I find… Read More
Today, January 4, 119 years ago, a female, wild-caught Asian elephant called Topsy is killed in front of 1,000 plus people at Lunar Park, one of America’s first amusement parks,… Read More
Nancy Regan, who co-founded the Culture and Animals Foundation (CAF) with her husband Tom, died in Raleigh, North Carolina on Wednesday, October 20, aged 83. With Tom’s passing in 2017,… Read More
Yesterday was the first day back in my office since June 17, when I collapsed unconscious in the street from a faulty heart valve I was born with and didn’t… Read More
