Editor’s Note: Eric Tourigny is a lecturer in historical archaeology at Newcastle University, UK. His research interprets osteological and material culture remains alongside historic texts to examine ...
Short and sweet, this epitaph can be found engraved on a small tombstone in London's Hyde Park. It marks the last resting place of Cherry, a Maltese Terrier — one of 300 pets interred in Hyde Park’s ...
Even in the late nineteenth century, Britons erected memorials to their departed pets. An analysis of pet gravestones dating from the 1880s to the 1990s shows a growing belief in an animal afterlife — ...