A Plague of Beasts: Colonial Office Documents on an Animal Epidemic
Dan Gilfoyle (The National Archives)
Wednesday 15th February 2017
3:30pm - 5pmSeminar Room 6, South Campus Teaching Hub
University of Liverpool
Dr Daniel Gilfoyle of The National Archives will be presenting a seminar entitled 'A Plague of Beasts: Colonial Office Documents on an Animal Epidemic’ as part of the University of Liverpool’s 'Texts and Contexts’ seminar series. The
series will explore the generation and transmission of a wide variety of texts within their historical, political, religious, scientific, social, and legal contexts. The presupposition behind this theme is that the relationship of culture, ideas, symbols and
discourses to power requires that we investigate both how texts and artefacts work as systems of signification and how they were produced, used, interpreted and circulated. Dr Daniel Gilfoyle studied history at the Universities of London and Oxford and has
published a number of articles on the history of science in the colonies. He is currently a Colonial Office records specialist at The National Archives.
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