Time travel – back 68 years to Vegetarian Central London 1947. These 5 restaurant businesses had all survived WW2. Kudos to all of the owners & their teams! Sharing a few items from our Ernest Bell Library archives. The ‘London Vegetarian Society’ in 1947 – minus most of its archives as its previous home had been destroyed in the ‘Blitz’ 6 years earlier in 1941. 5 places to eat –…
Today: – ……we would like to jump back to 1914, to one of the first successful animal cruelty prosecutions. The court case was brought by the Performing and Captive Animals Defence League (PADL). We are happy to discover that undercover activism for the benefit of animals goes back more than 100 years! ‘Andrew’, a dealer friend in the UK, recently discovered this original postcard of ‘Choclat’ and sold it to us.…
Do Animals Suffer? – a powerful gruesome image of ~ 118 years ago. The drawing / illustration on the postcard is by William Small – artist for ‘The Daily Graphic’ – the date looks like 1897. The original postcard is in the collection of the Ernest Bell Library. Scroll down this page for a larger 1.66 MB version. ‘Death Row’ Ships Live animals were being shipped for slaughter in other countries. There were…
SeaWorld 2014 / 5. The Hippodrome, London 1921. We are continuing the fight against humans forcing animals to perform for their profit. Important notes are in – brown. The postcard & other items referenced in this blog post are being cared for by the Ernest Bell Library. Our articles are always ‘heavy’ with embedded links & notes. Our goals are to help researchers & to inspire fellow animal rights activists.…
“I lead a very simple and frugal life, that is to say that I absolutely only eat vegetables. I wear the simplest possible clothes, no hat. I walk barefoot and I live in the greatest possible harmony with my ideas about Nature.” – Marius CAYOL – Vegan & Simple-Lifer – writing circa 1910 All of the original items, which we share in this post, are being cared for in our…
“Our presence on this Earth is like being shipwrecked and sailing together in a lifeboat. You can either sell what food there is to the rich so they survive and then generate fights over it, or you can share it out. It isn’t just a moral decision but a practical one. There is no shortage of food in the world simply a shortage of money with which to buy it.”…
Come to Summer School in Rhos-on-Sea 28/- all inclusive for a week = £ 1.20 = approx US$ 1.85 Choice of 2 locations – select your dates. Original postcard in our – Ernest Bell Library Collection – more. Oops – too late – the date has passed – it was held in 1910 – here are some of the participants. Click on the photo below to see them all. Front Row Centre…
Draped in loose flowing garments and with long hair they worked in the gardens and fields, built spartan timber cabins and found relaxation in dancing and naked bathing, exposing their bodies to light, air, sun and water. Their diet excluded all animal foods and was based entirely on plants, vegetables and fruit. Joseph Salomonson – plant eater & ‘dietician’ Salt is the first link in a chain of modern evils.…
HappyCow Directory UK – 1881 In 1881 the entire UK had just 20 lacto-ovo vegetarian eating places & 22 food stores. The first title is ‘tongue in cheek’, HappyCow started in 1999, this ‘Directory’ is 118 years older, it is from the December 1881 issue of The Dietetic Reformer & Vegetarian Messenger – more discussion below. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…
The ‘Alpha’ Restaurant There are now almost 110,000 reviews published on HappyCow. This is the earliest vegetarian restaurant ‘review’ which we have yet found – it was published on Feb. 7, 1880 – a Saturday. The ‘Alpha’ opened in London, UK in 1879 & promoted itself as London’s “First Food Reform Restaurant”. The ‘Alpha’ was the project of a ‘highly controversial’ couple – Thomas Low Nichols (1815–1901) & Mary Gove Nichols (1810 – 1884) . More…
Much more from Dan Piraro – here. Can you imagine living without salads? In the 1500s Queen Catherine (Catherine Parr – 1512–1548 – sixth wife of Henry the Eighth of England), would send a servant by boat from London, down the River Thames & across the English Channel, to France – to get a ‘take-away salad’ & bring it back to her! ~ The simple fact of the introduction of the…
Végétalisme historique / Historical Veganism The French were 20+ years ahead of the British in creating the names – le végétalisme – végétalien – végétalienne – ……for what Dorothy & Donald Watson termed – veganism – vegan – in 1944. Here we will give some tasters of French veganism going back to the early 20th Century. Most of the links in this blog post go to French sources. We will also present Jean…
‘..abandoning all animal food..’ = consuming nothing which has an animal source = 100% vegetarian = vegan Some Very Pleasant History Discussions of Vegan Advocacy from the 1840s An 1851 Article by R. T. Trall Russell Thacher ‘R. T.’ Trall’s – autographed 1860s Carte de Visite. The original is in the Ernest Bell Library. The article appeared in an Almanac published in London, UK in 1851 – by the London, UK based vegan, William Horsell. …