United Kingdom Week for the Animals

First Festival of the Working Horse.

King Charles with Doug Joiner's mare, 'Ella' at Clarence House, December 2010.

Listen to

Playing For Change: Song Around the World

"One Love."

Click on the ducks.

"Above all, my dear friend, do not be vexed or discouraged. We are on the stage of history."

~Sir Winston Churchill

30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965

Click dog to watch

"God n Dog"

“Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.”

—Thomas De Quincey, English author

Click poster to see trailer of the film on William Wilberforce, father of animal protection movement, British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.

'The Greatest Britons of all Time'

chosen by the people of Britain.

Sir David Attenborough

Beloved Television Host, Naturalist (1926–)

click bird.

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."

- Paul McCartney

Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchill and British butterflies... in pictures.

Click on the beautiful butterfly.

Princess Diana...

(1 July 1961 - 31 August 1997)

Click on the Princess

and family

to see more photos.

"Beloved princess and devoted mother to William and Harry."

The Princess, as a child, loved her

guinea pig "Peanuts."

Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry stand amid the Tower of London's 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' poppy installation.

This was to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One (WW1), in London August 5, 2014.

Learn about the amazing animals and culture of Ireland! Click on the beautiful castle and animals.

Prince William and Princess Kate

with Prince George...

and sweet Lupo.

(December 2011 – November 2020)

Visit

C.S. Lewis Foundation.

Learn of upcoming

Events, Lectures and Ways to Be Involved!

"I have a PHD in

Unconditional Love."

“You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson

Born: November 13, 1850, Edinburgh, Scotland UK

Died: December 3, 1894

Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge Kate shared a beautiful family photo for their 2021 Christmas card

Elizabeth II

(Elizabeth Alexandra Mary;

born 21 April 1926-8 September 2022)

Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and

New Zealand, and Head of the Commonwealth

and has been since her accession in 1952.

"The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. "

~Queen Elizabeth II

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England. It is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom, after the River Severn.

While it is best known for flowing through London, the river also flows alongside other towns and cities, including Oxford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames and Windsor.

The King's Horse Guards

"Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious. "

~David Attenborough

Born: May 8, 1926 London, England

Queen Elizabeth’s love of animals was evident from early on, and she always seemed at her happiest when outdoors with her dogs and horses.

12th Annual

United Kingdom

Week for the Animals

29 June-July 7, 2024 !

JK Rowling with her rescued Greyhound Sapphire. Click on Sapphire!

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge feeds lamb

during a visit to a farm.

Ian McKellan

(born 25 May 1939)

Gandalf has a Dachshund.

We love you, Ian.

Harry Potter turned

26 yrs old July 26, 2023!

Queen Elizabeth II as a young lady with her pup.

The Duke of Cambridge,

Prince William and Lupo.

Snapped by her mother,

the Duchess of Cambridge, this is little Princess Charlotte!

Adele with her doxie,

Louie Amanda

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

CBE, FRSL was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

Born: January 3, 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa-

September 2, 1973, Bournemouth, UK

*The McCartney Family*

Visionaries

for Veggie Living

Elton John

March 25, 1947

(Pinner, UK)

Beloved English singer, pianist and composer.

30+ albums.

“A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.”

― Jacob M. Appel, Scouting for the Reaper

J.K. Rowling

born July 31, 1965 Yate, UK

J. K. says, "When in doubt,

go to the library."

Daniel Day-Lewis

April 29, 1957 Kensington, London, UK.

Revolver history.

The Beatles had hoped to work in a more modern facility than EMI's London studios at Abbey Road, and so sent Brian Epstein to Memphis in 1966 to see of the possibility of recording at Stax Studio....

(It wrapped June 21, 1968) Click album cover.

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on 26 May 1967, their 8th album.

Click on Justin and his horses...

Moody Blues.

Daniel Jacob Radcliffe

(born 23 July 1989)

Ban Live Export

Tolkien Reading Day- 25 March

Read about Significance, celebrations and more!

Henry Drummond

Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer.

August 17, 1851, Stirling, -March 11, 1897, UK

Anne Sewell, Black Beauty

Recognized as one of the 10 best children's books of all times..

Ms. Sewell was born 30 March 1820 Norfolk, England- 25 April 1878

Izaak Walton (1593 – 1683)

August 9, 1593, Stafford, UK

December 15, 1683 Winchester, UK

Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924)

British novelist and playwright. Best known for the three children's novels. Click book flap.

International

Help! is the fifth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles and the soundtrack to their film of the same name. It was released on 6 August 1965.

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

January 18, 1882, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom

Died: January 31, 1956 Hartfield, United Kingdom

"Let nature be your teacher."

~William Wordsworth,

UK Poet Laureate

(April 7, 1770 -

April 23, 1850)

Everyday is Earth Day!

United Kingdom and Ireland

Week for the Animals

Book of Kells

History of world’s most famous medieval manuscript rewritten after dramatic new research.

Lavishly illustrated 1,200-year-old copy of Gospels previously thought to have been thought to have been created as one book.

Trinity College

in Dublin

"Nothing will benefit health and increase the chances for survival of earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. "

– Albert Einstein

‘A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!‘

~William Shakespeare

1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

-April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

Click on Briton Rivière, ‘Sympathy’

Britain is a nation of pet lovers – and it has the Victorians to thank.

Support SPANA

SPANA's mission is to transform the welfare of working animals in low-income countries.

The Woodland Trust

We are the UK's largest woodland conservation charity.

Our vision is a UK rich in woods and trees.

Here's how we're making that a reality.

Ravi Shankar teaches George Harrison how to play sitar 1968. Listen...

Ravi born April 7, 1920, Varanasi, India

Died: December 11, 2012, La Jolla, CA

For centuries, historians and archaeologists have puzzled over the many mysteries of Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument that took Neolithic builders an estimated 1,500 years to erect.

Located in southern England, it is comprised of roughly 100 massive upright stones placed in a circular layout.

Stonehenge

“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.”

– J. R. R. Tolkien

Born: January 3, 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Died: September 2, 1973, Bournemouth, UK

“England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humors.”

– George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist

Blue Cross

125+ years of changing pets' lives!

Stephen L. Winwood English musician and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock and pop rock.

Born: May 12, 1948

Handsworth, Birmingham, UK

Legendary...

Prince William,

Duke of Cambridge

Animal rights campaigners in UK celebrate monumental victory following the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill passing its final hurdle in the House of Lords

April 2022

Prince Harry

With Animals

32 Pictures That Might Just Make

Your Heart Burst

The Time is Now. Close Fur Farms.

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti.

May 12, 1828, London, UK.-

April 9, 1882, Birchington-on-Sea,

English poet, illustrator, painter.

“The sea hath no king but God alone.”

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“The maxim of the British people is ‘Business as usual.’”

– Winston Churchill, a British politician, army officer, writer and former UK Prime Minister during WWII.

Joan of Arc (1882)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Pre Raphaelite painting

Britain’s top 10 British writers

Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, KB

(13 November 1761 – 16 January 1809) was a British Army general, author and conservationist

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956)

Beloved UK writer

Stand With Ukraine

June 29-July 7, 2024

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll.

William Wordsworth is remembered as a poet of spirituality, a poet who loved and was in awe of nature and sought to appeal to people in all walks of life. Learn more at the Poetry Foundation by clicking the daffodils.

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

~One of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central

figures and important intellects. ~