A Home for the Kim Stallwood Collection
During my negotiations with The British Library, it became apparent that they were interested in only the research materials. Consequently, I had to find a permanent home for the remaining collection.
From discussions with colleagues working in like-minded organisations and animal law departments in universities and from searching the Internet, I discovered Tier im Recht, the Swiss-based animal law charity. I saw on TIR’s website that it had a significant library professionally managed by a qualified librarian.
In 2019 I made a plenary presentation at the World Conference for Mainstreaming Animal Protection in Denmark. Vanessa Gerritsen, TIR’s deputy executive director, was in attendance. I introduced myself and we began talking about their library and possible interest in acquiring my collection. Moena Zeller, TIR’s librarian, visited my office to see my library in 2021. The following March, I spent a week with TIR in Zurich, meeting with the organisation’s professional staff and studying the impressive library, a reference collection containing more than 200,000 books, essays, and films on animals and the law, ethics, and society. We reached an agreement and TIR acquired the Stallwood Collection. TIR also engaged me as a part-time independent consultant to advise them on projects related to movement preservation and organisational development.
In 2021, I worked with TIR to acquire the International Association Against Painful Experiments on Animals Archive, including papers belonging to its founder, Brian Gunn. One year later, the IAAPEA Archive and about one-half of the Stallwood Collection were shipped to TIR’s offices in Zurich.
My library of more than 2,000 books on animal rights and related matters is the remaining part of my collection in England. I continue to use this resource, but it will eventually become part of the TIR library.
The Kim Stallwood Collection at TIR includes publications, magazines, academic journals; posters, badges, artefacts; films, videos, photographs; Professor Timothy Sprigge Collection; Lawrence & Beavan Design Collection; Lawrence & Beavan Photography Collection; Duncan Weir Collection; Richard Newman Collection; and Cecil Schwartz Collection.
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 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.
