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Unfortunate timing…
Author(s) -
Jones Bruce Vivash
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.g3238
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , political science , library science , history , reading (process) , law , computer science
While researching a different subject in the archives of the RCVS, Bruce Vivash Jones discovered a box of pristine badges for the 10th International Veterinary Congress, which was to have been held in London in August 1914. Intrigued by why the badges were unused, he began to investigate the history of the congress. Reading official transcripts and contemporaneous news reports revealed how, despite meticulous planning and determined fundraising, the congress was overtaken by events