I interrupt myself and my series on the lovely Ipswich museum with this urgent seasonal message. I had a lovely tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum with the ever marvellous Robert Lloyd Parry, who showed a bunch of us around on a themed tour "Fear in the Fitz" (highly recommended, and more coming in 2018). By happy coincidence, one of the things he highlighted happened to also appear in the Museum of Cambridge "Witchcraft" exhibition, as part of their Tracing Traditions work. In t

This week I have mostly been thinking about decapitations. It started as a casual conversation with someone who will remain anonymous but who can confirm that she knows the person who knows the whereabouts of Oliver Cromwell's head. For those of you who don't know, having rested peacefully in Westminster Abbey, he was dug up and posthumously executed after the restoration of the English Monarchy. The corpse was exhumed and then hanged, and later his head was placed on a spike