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A postcard from the collection of Tom Phillips, on show in the exhibition. Bodleian Libraries University of Oxford

March 17, 2026

Philip Howell, University of Cambridge

What pets are and what they mean is still a puzzle, as this exhibition explores.

The London Museum’s new logo. London Museum

August 23, 2024

Philip Howell, University of Cambridge

The pigeon was chosen because it has remained for a thousand years ‘an impartial and humble observer of London life’.

Larry, the Downing Street cat, sits on the street outside No. 10. EPA-EFE/Andy Rain

July 15, 2024

Philip Howell, University of Cambridge

Larry was a pet adopted in 2011 as a companion for then prime minister David Cameron’s children. But he has become something much more than that.