‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39

Otter hunting was a minor field sport in Britain but in the early years of the twentieth century a lively campaign to ban it was orchestrated by several individuals and anti-hunting societies. The sport became increasingly popular in the late nineteenth century and the Edwardian period. This paper e...

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Main Authors: Allen, Daniel, Watkins, Charles, Matless, David
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Published: Cambridge University Press 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34578/
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description Otter hunting was a minor field sport in Britain but in the early years of the twentieth century a lively campaign to ban it was orchestrated by several individuals and anti-hunting societies. The sport became increasingly popular in the late nineteenth century and the Edwardian period. This paper examines the arguments and methods used in different anti-otter hunting campaigns 1900–1939 by organisations such as the Humanitarian League, the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports and the National Association for the Abolition of Cruel Sports.
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spelling nottingham-345782020-05-04T17:38:31Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34578/ ‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39 Allen, Daniel Watkins, Charles Matless, David Otter hunting was a minor field sport in Britain but in the early years of the twentieth century a lively campaign to ban it was orchestrated by several individuals and anti-hunting societies. The sport became increasingly popular in the late nineteenth century and the Edwardian period. This paper examines the arguments and methods used in different anti-otter hunting campaigns 1900–1939 by organisations such as the Humanitarian League, the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports and the National Association for the Abolition of Cruel Sports. Cambridge University Press 2016-04-01 Article PeerReviewed Allen, Daniel, Watkins, Charles and Matless, David (2016) ‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39. Rural History, 27 (01). pp. 79-101. ISSN 0956-7933 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10210822&fileId=S0956793315000175 doi:10.1017/S0956793315000175 doi:10.1017/S0956793315000175
spellingShingle Allen, Daniel
Watkins, Charles
Matless, David
‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39
title ‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39
title_full ‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39
title_fullStr ‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39
title_full_unstemmed ‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39
title_short ‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39
title_sort ‘an incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in britain, 1900–39
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