I thought I’d offer a little insight into the things I have discovered throughout the course of my research so far. The project is to look at the original veterinary legislation, with the RCVS charter of 1844 and the Veterinary Surgeons Act of 1881 as my main focus. I had a bit of delay in accessing the RCVS archives due to COVID, but did spend some time in other archives, which I found really interesting. How others saw us Veterinary presence in 19th century archives was var