How did we survive before social media? Is there life after Facebook? Social media: It’s a blessing and a curse. Of course, I can recall what life was like before… Read More
You can now watch online a recording of the public meeting at The British Library, ‘The Fight for Animal Rights: Kim Stallwood in Conversation’, that took place on May 16.… Read More
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
Join me in The Pigott Theatre in The Knowledge Centre to discuss animal rights and The British Library’s acquisition of the Kim Stallwood Archive. Panelists include Paula Sparks, Chair, The… 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
Today I start my 47th year as a vegan, working full-time in animal rights. My focus for 2023 is to write the biography of Topsy the elephant, serve on the… 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
As I wish to prioritise writing my book about Topsy the elephant, I am taking a break from social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) until the end of 2022. I will… 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
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
One year ago today, I collapsed unconscious in the street yards from my office in Hastings. I remember walking along the road and not feeling well. I sat down in… Read More
Animalaw: Visions for the Future The Martin’s Act Bicentenary Anniversary Conference 2022 18-22 July 2022 Online Co-produced by the UK Centre for Animal Law (A-LAW) and Universities Federation for Animal… 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