Invisible Ancestor: The Galloway Nag and its Legacy
Miriam A. Bibby
Publication date: April, 2024
Pages: 560, colour
ISBN 978-615-6696-15-1 Paperback, €64.00
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Acknowledgements
Introduction. A Beautiful Breed of Little Horses
PART I. TRACKING THE GALLOWAY: ORIGINS AND INFLUENCE
Chapter 1. Horses from the Margin
Chapter 2. The Galloway as the Best Breed in the North
PART II. “AND ALL THEIR NAGS ARE PRESBYTERIAN”: THE GALLOWAY, THE STUARTS, AND THE HAMILTONS
Chapter 3. Satirical Nag: The Galloway from the Union of the Crowns to the Restoration
Chapter 4. The Galloway Nag from Restoration to Culloden (And Its Aftermath)
PART III. BLACK SWAN: CHANGING TIMES, CHANGING GALLOWAYS
Chapter 5. Our Racing Friends in the North
Chapter 6. Industrial Interlude: Working Class Hero
Chapter 7. Arab or Arabian? The Rise of the Orientalist “Arabian” Horse
PART IV. NO FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES: EXIT THE GALLOWAY
Chapter 8. Blood, Breeding, and the Byron-Milbanke Marriage
Chapter 9. Annabella Milbanke’s Nose
Chapter 10. “The Common Blood of Which We Are Trying to Rid Ourselves”
Chapter 11. Heat, and Finally Light: Pseudo-Science and Science in the Search for Thoroughbred Origins
Chapter 12. Idle Sentiment
Conclusion. Nothing Now Remains but the Name
Appendices
Bibliography
Data sheet
- Author(s)
- Miriam A. Bibby
- Imprint
- Trivent Medieval
- Book series
- Rewriting Equestrian History
- Volume no.
- 6
- Book series editor(s)
- Anastasija Ropa, Timothy Dawson
- ISBN (hardcover)
- 978-615-6696-14-4
- ISBN (paperback)
- 978-615-6696-15-1
- eISBN
- 978-615-6696-16-8
- Publication date
- April, 2024
- Page numbers
- 560
Specific References
The outstanding qualities of the Galloway horse landrace are referenced in literary sources from the late sixteenth century onwards. Brief, but eloquent and revealing allusions appear in the work of William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, and other writers with connections to the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, and Carolean courts. The Galloway nag was sufficiently influential for its name to become a generic widely applied to small horses of a certain type: speedy, enduring, and reliable. This is still the case in the north of England and Australia, where the terms “Gallowa” and “Galloway” continue to be used today. The Galloway contributed to a surprising number of modern horse breeds, including the Thoroughbred, yet few people are aware of its influence. Miriam A. Bibby shows how and why its contribution has been overwritten by other narratives. In doing so, she also reveals previously unexplored sources that indicate the complex role played by the imagined Galloway in Anglo-Scottish relations. Collectively these represent a unique new genre of commentary that she identifies as “Galloway Nag Satire.” This is the first major study devoted to the history of the Galloway horse.
Miriam A. Bibby is an equine historian, author, and editor. She is co-editor-in-chief of Cheiron, the International Journal of Equine and Equestrian History and an affiliate of the University of Glasgow’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies. Miriam is a former course developer for the University of Manchester’s networked learning course in Egyptology and has worked for several museums and heritage organisations. Research curiosity about the relatively unknown Galloway horse, or nag, led to a PhD on the topic. Miriam has kept horses throughout her adult life, including Fell ponies, one of the breeds believed to be the closest relatives of the Galloway horse.
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