Official Veterinarians (OVs) from across the U.K. came together recently at conference organised to provide targeted CPD for their particular roles. With the theme of 'Reducing the impact of notifiable diseases in the UK', the meeting considered a wide range of topics, spanning large animal, small animal and equine issues. Georgina Mills reports on some of the sessions.

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Saudi Arabia (officially, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) was established as a sovereign country in 1932, by its founder King Abdulaziz Al-Saud who led a successful campaign that lasted 30 years following the conquest of Riyadh (official capital) to unite large swathes of the Arabian Peninsula. With an area of 2,150,000 km, Saudi Arabia occupies 80% of historical Arabia and is the 13th largest country...

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This special issue of The Public Historian will examine what is a pressing, pervasive, traumatic, and very public contemporary issue in which history and historians are heavily involved in many countries around the globe. Authors will investigate a range of issues around the state involvement in death, including the role of the state as perpetrator and its responsibilities to the victims and th...