… Yorkshire, from Durham to Devonshire. In London, there were of course specific places for duelling encounters, such as CoventGarden , Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the Ring in Hyde Park, Forty Footsteps Field, Barnes Elms, or Wimbledon Common in Surrey. …
Menageries
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… of animal abuse was committed against Chunee, a 7-ton elephant from Bengal purchased by Mr Harris, the manager of CoventGarden Theatre, to perform in a grand pantomime known as the Harlequin and Padmanaba, or the Golden Fish. If in 1813 … building was demolished in 1829 marking the end of an era and thereby paving the way for nineteenth-century zoological gardens. Like concerts, theatres and museums, menageries institutionalised the exotic with discussions in newspapers, …