Who got to keep the hand?
I won't even try to describe what events lead me to this little archive treasure. But it is one of those museum catalogue entries that...
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- Aug 19, 2021
- 4 min
Further adventures in the archives
It has been a crazy week of adventure, triggered by the deep dive into old museum inventories in the Cambridge University Library. Masked...
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- Feb 12, 2021
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Wombwell's travelling menagerie
Wombwell's travelling menagerie supplied unique animal specimens to various Zoology Museums including Cambridge, Norwich and Aberdeen
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- Nov 18, 2019
- 2 min
What's wrong, short face?
Sorry it's been a while since I wrote a blog post - things have been going on with family. And I've been doing some drawing. And might...
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- Aug 30, 2019
- 5 min
Return to Eden
Next week I'm displaying and doing a workshop at DDD14 (Death, Dying and Disposal at the University of Bath, 2019). So of course, I have...
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- May 10, 2019
- 1 min
Death Fest 2019!
Death Fest time is here again! Okay, so we never officially called it that. Instead, this month, I've been helping put the final touches...
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- Apr 17, 2019
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Handling death with the death maidens
As arrangements for the Dying for Life event "Things to do when you're dead"* are hotting up, I'm getting out and about talking to people...
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- Mar 16, 2019
- 3 min
Unlikely flights
This week I went to a talk at Zoology on Palaeognaths. (I spent much of the week guessing what Palaeognaths were... I knew I'd seen the...
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- Mar 10, 2019
- 1 min
Yes, we have kneecaps!
Much belated post after cold and snot induced vertigo. A second time with bird skeletons in the Zoology Museum, so many more bird...
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- Feb 1, 2019
- 2 min
Do birds have kneecaps?
I've spent a lot of time in the Zoology museum this month, both front of house (helping people find things in the museum, including the...
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- Nov 4, 2018
- 2 min
Best story of the month
This month I have been to a number of Death Awareness events: From Selfies to Runes, how do we want to be remembered? Face to Face with...
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- Oct 11, 2018
- 2 min
Art still isn't easy
Today I am happy to share some animals from Conrad Gesner's "Icones Animalium". This delight from 1553 (reprinted in 1560 by popular...
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- Sep 28, 2018
- 2 min
It isn't easy being an artist
How many woodcuts can a wood cutter cut if a wood cutter needs to illustrate a natural history encyclopedia? Okay, so it's a bad pun. But...
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- Aug 17, 2018
- 1 min
Butterflies, bats, fish and flying things
The Zoology Museum in Cambridge is now fully open! (Okay, that's been true for a couple of months, but I've been a bit run down and...
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- Aug 10, 2018
- 2 min
Faces of Tutankhamen
Also at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology this month (only till 23 September) are some original photos of the tomb of...
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- Aug 3, 2018
- 2 min
Horn dancing and headdresses
The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) has an exhibition based on the Star Carr finds. If you're not familiar with it, it is...
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- Jun 29, 2018
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Problems with primates
As I tidy my house (which is a fairly rare occurrence), I found a third drawing of the taxidermy cases of Ipswich Museum from back in...
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- Jun 22, 2018
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All white cast (almost)
As part of a couple of days working with the Museum Detox/Museum Remix teams, I finally made a visit to the Museum of Classical...
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- May 25, 2018
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Bulletproof Armadillo?
Having spent a lot of time in the newly re-opened Zoology Museum, I have recently been looking at Armadillos. Googling them, I see one of...
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- Apr 27, 2018
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It WAS the end of the world
The Panacea museum. Where to start describing this... this... genius work of museum explanation text. Perhaps I should first state its...
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