This Month's Events

Since the last blog in April things have been pretty hectic on the MA front, hence the lack of recent blog posts. Radio programmes, essays and archive research have occupied most of my time. However, that doesn't mean that Ispyhistory has stopped and given time I should be back to regular posts. But for now, I just wanted to take the opportunity to publicise a couple of events that are coming up/in progress.

Currently installed in Aldershot Military Museum is my pop-up exhibition 'Wanted: Dead or Alive', which will be there now until the 19th August. It's focus (unsurprisingly I hear you cry!) is the nineteenth century exotic animal trade and it provides a bit of a taster to the topic with some eye catching images found during the course of my research. I am really pleased with the final outcome, especially the design so I owe a special shout out to Maddie for that! All I want to add is, please go! Having the final product is great but its the feedback that is really important, so if you have a spare half an hour, please pop up there and take a look.

Secondly, I should do a bit of shameless plugging for a talk I will be doing in a couple of weeks for the PubSci events in London. Details can be found here http://pubsci.co.uk/?p=274 but again, please come along and show some support. It would be great to get some friendly faces in the audience. It's the first time I will have done anything like this and lets just say I am incredibly nervous about the whole thing! I will also be taking along the pop-up exhibition so, if Aldershot it a little far to come, here's a chance to see it up in London.

My final plug is for an event at LMA which will be running on 5th September - the focus of course being ANIMALS! Details about this can be found on eventbrite, but we're very lucky to have three guest speakers coming along to make things a little more interesting. So remember Animals at LMA: "Who let the lions out?"! (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-let-the-lions-out-tickets-12365566743)

Shameless plugging over, I will resume normal blogging soon. Thank you all!