Reading Time: 4 minutesIt was with a certain amount of trepidation that I signed up for a taxidermy class. I am researching nineteenth-century British taxidermy production and wanted some hands-on experience.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Author: Alice Would
Dr. Alice Would (she/her) is a Lecturer in Imperial and Environmental History at Bristol University. She obtained a PhD in History from Bristol University in September 2021 with a dissertation that explored Victorian taxidermy production by tracking the flow of animal bodies which supplied the taxidermy trade, from kill-site to museum. As an environmental historian of animal-human relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Alice is particularly interested in the senses, materiality, interspecies histories, and time and temporality.