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Death and football scores
Laid low at the moment. Resting, and hoping to not wake up to this view anytime soon. (Though I had a lovely conversation with someone...
Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 30, 20182 min read
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Honey coloured bones
Quick post as I'm up to my eyeballs editing skeleton photos. The local friendly archaeologist has been giving me great access to be able...
Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 16, 20181 min read
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Bodyworlds Piccadilly
Not piccalilli. Not peccadillo. Not even Pickled Liver (though there might have been one). Thank you Siri and iphone autocorrect for...
Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 9, 20183 min read
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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...
Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 4, 20182 min read
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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...
Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 11, 20182 min read
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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...
Susan Elaine Jones
Sep 28, 20182 min read
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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...
Susan Elaine Jones
Aug 17, 20181 min read
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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...
Susan Elaine Jones
Aug 10, 20182 min read
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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...
Susan Elaine Jones
Aug 3, 20182 min read
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Things I learnt last week
Last week I spent a couple of days at the Material Bodies conference, where archaeologists and historians got together to share and...
Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 13, 20184 min read
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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...
Susan Elaine Jones
Jun 29, 20181 min read
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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...
Susan Elaine Jones
Jun 22, 20182 min read
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What is art for?
So this week, month, and some of this year, and years before, I have been contemplating art. In a classic photographic text, I came...
Susan Elaine Jones
Jun 20, 20184 min read
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Help a starving artist
Quick blog post to say things are for sale. Specifically, a first opportunity to see and buy four limited edition images from my...
Susan Elaine Jones
Jun 4, 20181 min read
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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...
Susan Elaine Jones
May 25, 20183 min read
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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...
Susan Elaine Jones
Apr 27, 20185 min read
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Dying for a panacea
A quick note to say, if you haven't been lucky enough to receive a panacea cure (available by post up until 2012) from the immortal...
Susan Elaine Jones
Apr 6, 20181 min read
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The dead on display
Summary of the University of Southampton "Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies" conference 2018: Met some old friends, made some new...
Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 23, 20182 min read
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Packing for social bones
Quick blog to say sorry for being quiet - I've been manning various events in the Cambridge Science Festival, and now am packing pictures...
Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 18, 20181 min read
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If a body meet a body...
What to do with your old cadaver? Find some thoughts here
Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 2, 20183 min read
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