The Box is a major cultural and heritage attraction and archive, which opened in Plymouth’s city centre in September 2020. Its collection, formally the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), is the regional film archive for the South West of England, comprising the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and Television South West (TSW). It also includes a significant number of donated film collections dating back to the early 1890s.
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Yeo Hunt Saboteurs
Protesters attempt to disrupt a fox hunt in the Yeo Valley
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Overview
Fox hunting originates in the 16th Century and involves tracking, chasing and killing of a fox with huntsmen on horseback and trained foxhounds. It was made illegal in Great Britain in 2005 but there are forms of fox hunting with hounds today and the shooting of foxes as vermin is still lawful. The public clamour to ban fox hunting finds its voice in the 1960s and is considered by many as unfair or as Oscar Wilde puts it the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Fox hunting enthusiasts see the sport as part of an important rural culture that is misunderstood by an urban public. It is not only a way of life for many in rural communities but useful for pest control and conservation. Hunt Meets continue in order to keep up with tradition but have been adapted to comply with the hunting ban.
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