Dr David Wilson
Honorary Research Fellow
School/Department: History Politics and International Relations, School of
Email: dw149@leicester.ac.uk
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(2017) Circus animals and the illusion of wildness, Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 15 (3), pp. 350-366.
(2015) The welfare of performing animals: a historical perspective. Berlin: Springer.
(2011) British animal behaviour studies in the twentieth century: some interdisciplinary perspectives, in C. Blazina, G. Boyra, D. Shen-Miller (eds) The psychology of the human-animal bond: a resource for clinicians and researchers. New York: Springer, pp. 25-44.
(2010) Animal performance: interdisciplinary features of a special area of performing arts history, Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, vol. 15, pp. 7-16.
(2009) Racial prejudice and the performing animals controversy in early twentieth-century Britain, Society and Animals. Journal of Human-Animal Studies, vol. 17 (2), pp. 149-165.
(2009) Crank legislators, faddists and professionals defence of animal performance in 1920s Britain, Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 7 (1), pp. 83-101.
(2008) Politics, press and the performing animals controversy in early twentieth-century Britain, Anthrozo, vol. 21 (4), pp. 317-337.
(2006) Avian anti-submarine warfare proposals in Britain, 1915-18: the Admiralty and Thomas Mills, International Journal of Naval History, vol. 5 (1), pp. 1-25.
(2004) The public relations of experimental animal psychology in Britain in the 1970s, Contemporary British History, vol. 18 (2), pp. 27-46.
(2004) Seagulls, sausage meat and the underwater ship, Journal of Defence Science, vol. 9 (1), pp. 21-29.
(2003) British female academics and comparative psychology: attempts to establish a research niche in the early twentieth century, History of Psychology, vol. 6 (1), pp. 89-109.
(2002) Animal psychology and ethology in Britain and the emergence of professional concern for the concept of ethical cost, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 33, pp. 235-261.
(2002) Experimental animal behaviour studies: the loss of initiative in Britain 100 years ago, History of Science, 40, pp. 291-320.
(2001) A 'precipitous degringolade?' The uncertain progress of British comparative psychology in the twentieth century, in G.C. Bunn, A.D. Lovie and G.D. Richards (eds) Psychology in Britain: historical essays and personal reflections. Leicester: British Psychological Society in association with the Science Museum, London, pp. 243-266.
(2001) Admiralty science, U-boats and the performing arts, 1916-1917, Journal of Defence Science, vol. 6 (2), pp. 157-167.
(2001) Sea lions, greasepaint and the U-boat threat: Admiralty scientists turn to the music hall in 1916, Notes and Records of The Royal Society, vol. 55 (3), pp. 425-455. (See also New Scientist, 14 February and 27 March 2004.)
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