Quick blog to say sorry for being quiet - I've been manning various events in the Cambridge Science Festival, and now am packing pictures...

What to do with your old cadaver? Find some thoughts here

Looking for the perfect Christmas present for that friend who still wishes it was Halloween? Buy my book! I know I've mentioned this...

After a prompt from a very good friend, I have been persuaded to put a book of my images together and offer it for sale. This way any of...

Last weekend I had a fantastic afternoon meeting people meeting human bones for the first time. It was a free, drop in workshop organised...

I had to write with the excitement and urgency of those discussing with flat earthers what they think caused the solar eclipse this week....

So last month I had a chance to meet a new skull. And was invited by a pro to "say what I see". Let's see what I can tell you about a...

***Correction to this information - see bottom of blog*** Of all the nightmare fodder I shared on the last post, the question that came...

A very quick post (as I'm still exhausted) to say how brilliant the Dying for Life Event was. Over 150 people came to chat about dying,...

Through some fantastic luck, a chance meeting a few years ago sparked my interest in skeletons and came together as a superb visit to an...

A long overdue update on the magic lantern slides that I acquired at auction, originally from the marvellous J. A. Fairfax Fozzard, the...

Visiting one of only two charnel chapels (or ossuaries) left in the country left a bitter taste in my mouth. Though it was possibly more...

Anatomy illustrations have often switched between the fiction of placing skeletons in lifelike poses and shocking honesty of showing not...

Channel Four made the first televised autopsy with Dr Gunther von Hagen's in 2002. There was much criticism by people who I can only...

Today, not many words are needed, as I just wanted to share my first attempts to bring out the beauty of the variety of skull shapes....

Death in Cambridge. It doesn't sound as glamorous as Death in Venice, but we have arty buildings and the punting. Most of all, we have a...

This week I have mostly been thinking about decapitations. It started as a casual conversation with someone who will remain anonymous but...

He (I am assuming it is a he) is easy to overlook. Many people wander by and don't even notice him. He is stealth itself, watching the...

Big birds of history. Actually the biggest birds. Ever. (If you don't count dinosaurs). Let me start again. The biggest birds than humans...

This week, I have mostly been pondering the baculum. A wonderful friend, "glidergoth", brought me one as a present from her trip to the...