Abolition on The Gamecock Codex

On the Cockpit's End

Fri, 01 Jan 1886 00:00:00 +0000

date: 1886-01-01

A remark printed in The Field in 1886, the year after the comprehensive failure of cockfighting in England to recover from the 1835 Act. The speaker’s name is not recorded.

The Cockpit Goes Legitimate

Sat, 01 Aug 1835 00:00:00 +0000

The Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act 1822 is followed by the Humane Act of 1835, which makes cockfighting illegal in England and Wales. The sport persists in Ireland and Scotland until the late nineteenth century.