A Plague of Beasts: Colonial Office Documents on an Animal Epidemic
3:00pm - 5:00pm /
Wednesday 15th February 2017
/ Venue: Seminar Room 6 South Teaching Hub
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- Dr Roland Clark
- Suitable for: Anybody interested in the topic, including university staff and students and member of the public.
- Admission: Admission is free, please contact Roland Clark to register: clarkr@liverpool.ac.uk
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Part of the History Department's speaker series, this talk discusses how colonial record offices in Africa produced and organized records relating to animal diseases during the nineteenth century. The series explores how texts and artefacts work as systems of signification and how they were produced, used, interpreted, and circulated within specific historical, political, religious, scientific, social, and legal contexts. Dan Gilfoyle is a Diplomatic and Colonial Records Specialist at The National Archives in London. A specialist in African archives, before joining the National Archives he studied at the Universities of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), London (Birkebeck College) and Oxford (St Antony's College), and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine (University of Oxford).