Dogs' bodies and dogs' lives were dramatically transformed after the Roman conquest, and this, in turn, altered the lives of humans.  New-style tiny dogs and monstrous brutes provided people in Britain with novel opportunities to reconceptualize canines and their duties and to use them to make statements about themselves.  At the same time, large populations of uncontrolled, self-feeding dogs were established, and their presence changed the texture and feel of daily life in Britain.

This lecture will take place online. Please see the History Faculty website for further information. 

Aside from a few notable exceptions, the British history written by historians begins not with the Roman period, but with the early Middle Ages.  This lecture poses a series of problems and questions in order to argue that this is a period with which historians should engage, and it suggests methods we might use to write not just the period’s political history, but its social and cultural history as well, by embracing Roman Britain’s more-than-human past. 

This lecture will take place online. Please see the History Faculty website for further information. 

The Carlyle Lectures will initially be given to an invitation-only audience. If circumstances allow, the History Faculty hope to move to in-person, public lectures later in the term. For recordings of lectures (and any updates) see the History Faculty website each week.

The Carlyle Lectures will initially be given to an invitation-only audience. If circumstances allow, the History Faculty hope to move to in-person, public lectures later in the term. For recordings of lectures (and any updates) see the History Faculty website each week.

The Carlyle Lectures will initially be given to an invitation-only audience. If circumstances allow, the History Faculty hope to move to in-person, public lectures later in the term. For recordings of lectures (and any updates) see the History Faculty website each week.

The Carlyle Lectures will initially be given to an invitation-only audience. If circumstances allow, the History Faculty hope to move to in-person, public lectures later in the term. For recordings of lectures (and any updates) see the History Faculty website each week.

The Carlyle Lectures will initially be given to an invitation-only audience. If circumstances allow, the History Faculty hope to move to in-person, public lectures later in the term. For recordings of lectures (and any updates) see the History Faculty website each week.

The Carlyle Lectures will initially be given to an invitation-only audience. If circumstances allow, the History Faculty hope to move to in-person, public lectures later in the term. For recordings of lectures (and any updates) see the History Faculty website each week.