The Welfare of Pit Ponies
Concern for animal welfare can be precarious, as the history of Britain’s pit ponies shows.
Concern for animal welfare can be precarious, as the history of Britain’s pit ponies shows.
Andy Croll tells how the stringent welfare policies introduced in response to the South Wales coal strike of 1898 had a long-term impact on the radicalisation of the miners.
Andy Croll on how publishing anti-social behaviour is a trick we have copied from the Victorians.