Stolen children of the endless night.
Les Mitchell
- Regions:
- South Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, East Riding, West Mids, Hereford, Warwickshire, Isle of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham, Neath Port Talbot, Swansea, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Blaenau Gwent, Vale of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Monmouthshire, Newport, Powys, Merthyr Tydfil, Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Torfaen
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Professional in so far as the subjects relate to my research interests
- Fee:
- Expensed
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 27th September 2026
- Tagged:
- Animals | Coal Mining History | Pit Ponies | Powerful
A new strand is emerging in history where we try, so far as it is possible, to ascertain the experiences of nonhuman animals during particular events and times. This talk presents a critical history of ponies in British coal mines; the ponies lives and to some extent the lives of humans who worked with them.
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Les has a background in pathology, specifically biochemistry, as well as in community health and education. Although from Liverpool he has lived and worked in five countries in Africa over the last 40+ years His current research work is in animal ethics, particularly examining language, texts, ideology, moral disengagement and mass violence. He is a Research Fellow with the University of the Free State, South Africa and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK
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