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  • Ancient History, Roman History, Pompeii (Archaeology), Ancient Mosaics
• • by Sena Coşğun Kandal
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  • Travel Writing, Ottoman History, Urban History, Urban Studies
• • by William Riguelle
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This text is about history of dogs service in warfare from ancient times to XXth century.

• • by Rafał Igielski
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  • Ancient Warfare, Early Modern Warfare, History of Dogs, Dogs in War

The figure of the English bloodhound is often portrayed both positively and negatively as an efficient man-hunter. This article traces the cultural, social and forensic functions of the first attempts to use bloodhounds for police... more

The figure of the English bloodhound is often portrayed both positively and negatively as an efficient man-hunter. This article traces the cultural, social and forensic functions of the first attempts to use bloodhounds for police investigation, and argues that the analysis of these developments, which took place at the turn of the twentieth century, further our understanding of the diverse practices and cultures of fin de siècle forensics. Arguing that their dogs could trail tracks of human scent, English pedigree bloodhound breeders promoted and imagined novel ways of detecting and thinking forensically, with which they made claims to social authority in matters of crime and detection. Yet, English bloodhounds were unstable carriers of forensic meaning making their use for tracking criminals deeply problematic: for example, the name of the breed itself invoked a long-line of social and cultural associations. In showing this, we can see how the practices of canine forensics had their roots in a complex history, involving genteel leisure, changing cultural understandings of scent, and shifting dog-keeping mores.

• • by Neil Pemberton
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  • Human-Animal Studies, Sensory Studies, History of Dogs, Nineteenth-century Britain

The dog - an animal that in the history of humans, has played a key role. The latest findings of modern genetics impose the origins of the dog to the Middle East, and outline the likely reasons for its domestication. It seems that the... more

The dog - an animal that in the history of humans, has played a key role. The latest findings of modern genetics impose the origins of the dog to the Middle East, and outline the likely reasons for its domestication. It seems that the targeted cross-breeding and breeding of various breeds occurred in antiquity, but breeding as a targeted human activity reached its peak in the Middle Ages. Although Hungarian historical sources are very modest about medieval dog breeding, it is likely that the famous works on this subject from the environment of medieval Western Europe were also known to Hungarian kings and nobility. Though historical sources about this fact are still absent, this paper confirms the historical sources that mention the medieval specialists of the
breeding and care of dogs in the service of Hungarian kings and nobility. In addition to these important historical sources there are also those which mention the different dog breeds in the holdings of the Hungarian kings and aristocracy.

• • by Michal Pírek
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  • Middle Ages, Medieval Hungarian History, History of Dogs, Medieval Hungarian Social History
• • by William Riguelle
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  • Urban History, History of Animals, History of Dogs
• • by Damian Domański
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  • Agronomy, Varro, Roman Literature, Plinius Maior
• • by Leonard Rutgers
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  • Ancient History, Genetics, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, History of Animals
• • by Konstantina Saliari
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  • Zooarchaeology, Dogs, Archaeological dogs, History of Dogs

Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys examines how the Victorians invented the dog show for BBC History Magazine 10(6) 2009

• • by Neil Pemberton
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  • History of Dogs