The Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society (ADAVS) was an
animal rights advocacy organisation, co-founded in England, in 1903, by the animal rights advocates
Lizzy Lind af Hageby, a Swedish-British feminist, and the English peeress
Nina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton.
Kean, Hilda
Hilda Kean (born August 1949) is a British historian who specialises in public and cultural history, and in particular the cultural history of animals. She is former Dean and Director of Public History at Ruskin College, Oxford, and an Honorary ...
"The 'Smooth Cool Men of Science': The Feminist and Socialist Response to Vivisection"
''History Workshop Journal'', 1995, 40: 16–38.
History
It was based for many years at Animal Defence House, 15
St James's Place
St James's Place is a street in the St James's district of London near Green Park. It was first developed around 1694, the historian John Strype describing it in 1720 as a "good Street ... which receiveth a fresh Air out of the Park; the Houses ...
, London, and ran a 237-acre animal sanctuary at
Ferne House
Ferne House is a country house in the parish of Donhead St Andrew in Wiltshire, England, owned by Viscount Rothermere.
There has been a settlement on the site since 1225 AD. The current house, known as Ferne Park and the third to occupy the sit ...
near Shaftesbury, Dorset, an estate owned by the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton.
The Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society's executive council included
Alice Drakoules
Alice Marie Drakoules (; other married name Lewis; – 15 January 1933) was a British humanitarian, vegetarian and campaigner for animal welfare.
Life
Drakoules was born near Brussels to English parents, in about 1850. In 1876, she married Will ...
who was a lifelong campaigner for
animal welfare
Animal welfare is the well-being of non-human animals. Formal standards of animal welfare vary between contexts, but are debated mostly by animal welfare groups, legislators, and academics. Animal welfare science uses measures such as longevity ...
and a keen supporter of the society. She helped the society campaign for licensed slaughterhouses, humane slaughter and for an ended to performing animals.
The society came to widespread attention during the
Brown Dog affair (1903–1910), which began when Lind af Hageby infiltrated the
vivisection in University College London of a brown terrier dog. The subsequent description of the experiment in her book, ''The Shambles of Science'' (1903) – in which she wrote that the dog had been conscious throughout and in pain – led to a protracted scandal and a libel case, which the accused researcher won. The affair continued for several years, making a name both for Lind af Hageby and for the society.
[
The society was associated with Hageby's International Humanitarian Bureau.]["The International Humanitarian Bureau"](_blank)
lonsea.de. Retrieved 14 January 2022. It published ''The Anti-Vivisection and Humanitarian Review'' in 1929 and ''Progress Today: The Humanitarian and Anti-Vivisection Review'' in the 1930s.
Selected publications
''Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society: Reports for 1933 and 1934''
(1935)
''Progress Today: The Humanitarian and Anti-Vivisection Review''
(1937)
See also
* List of animal rights groups
References
Further reading
* Gålmark, Elisabeth Lisa. ''Shambles of Science, Lizzy Lind af Hageby & Leisa Schartau, anti-vivisektionister 1903-1913/14.'' Stockholm University, 1996.
*Gålmark, Elisabeth Lisa. "Women Antivivisectionists, The Story of Lizzy Lind af Hageby and Leisa Schartau," in ''Animal Issues''. 2000, Vol 4, No 2, pp. 1–32.
*Kean, Hilda. ''Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800''. Reaktion Books, 1998.
* Lansbury, Coral. ''The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers, and Vivisection in Edwardian England''. University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
*Mason, Peter. ''The Brown Dog Affair''. Two Sevens Publishing, 1997.
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Animal rights organizations
Animal welfare organisations based in the United Kingdom
Anti-vivisection organizations
Defunct organisations based in England
Organizations established in 1903