Helen Cowie

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Helen Cowie is Professor of modern History at the University of York. Her research focuses on the history of animals and the history of natural history, with a particular focus on the history of zoos, exotic pets and the use of animals products in fashion. She is author or Conquering Nature in Spain and its Empire, 1750-1850 (2011), Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Empathy, Education, Entertainment (2014), Llama (2017) and Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain (2022).

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of York

Education

  • 2008 
    University of Warwick, PhD History

Publications

  • 2022
    Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain, Cambridge University Press
  • 2017
    Llama, Reaktion Books
  • 2014
    Exhibiting Animals: Empathy, Education, Entertainment, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2011
    Conquering Nature in Spain and its Empire, Manchester University Press

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