Ian Pedler
Save Our Stags
Written by the founder of the Save Our Stags Campaign and detailing as it does the
‘back-
Stag hunting has always been the most hated blood sport on the anti ‘hit list’, sustaining
constant attack for over one hundred years. The book takes the story from the start
of Henry Salt’s 1891 campaign against the Royal Buckhounds through to the post-
The pages between cover in depth every aspect of the story from the earliest attempts
at parliamentary legislation in 1883, the formation of the League Against Cruel Sports,
through the years of the League’s Edward Hemingway, Raymond Rowley, Richard Course
and Douglas Batchelor, culminating in a detailed account of the final 1997-
For the first time serious coverage is given to the role of direct action from the attempt at hunt sabotage by the LACS in the late 1950s, through the birth and early years of the Hunt Saboteurs Association, to the Save Our Stags Campaign of the 1970s and ’80s.
The roles of deer sanctuaries, undercover operatives, hunt monitors, along with every splinter group that has opposed stag hunting, are all given due prominence. The book also contains a comprehensive explanation of the history and practice of deer hunting, much of it ‘culled’ from the annals of the hunters themselves, which offers a fascinating insight into what they consider acceptable in the name of ‘sport’.
It gives HSA its rightful place in the long history of blood sports abolition, explaining much of the tactics, philosophy, and motivations of animal rights that has sustained the movement for over forty years.
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