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Curating Cattle: reflections on cattle collections and histories

11 March 2026 - 11 March 2026

6:30PM - 7:30PM

Redhills Durham Miners Hall, Pitman's Theatre, Flass Street, Durham, DH1 4BE

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A conversation with the Curator of the Museum of English Rural Life, Dr Ollie Douglas (University of Reading), and Professor Julie-Marie Strange (History, Durham University) on the oddities and interests of working with objects and stories from historical cattle-keeping.

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Image credit: Beamish, The Living Museum of The North

What sorts of objects and stories remain from past practices of cattle-keeping? How do we preserve cattle heritage - and why? How do we understand the ways people lived with cattle? And why are there so many historical pictures of chunky cows?

This event is free and open to all (with reception afterwards). 

This event is sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Study and the IAS Major Project,  Interest in Cattle: value, risk and security in eastern and southern Africa

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