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Susan Elaine Jones
- 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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Susan Elaine Jones
- 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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Susan Elaine Jones
- 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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Susan Elaine Jones
- 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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Susan Elaine Jones
- 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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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jul 13, 2018
- 4 min
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 29, 2018
- 1 min
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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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 22, 2018
- 2 min
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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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 20, 2018
- 4 min
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 4, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- May 25, 2018
- 3 min
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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Susan Elaine Jones
- Apr 27, 2018
- 5 min
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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Susan Elaine Jones
- Apr 6, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Mar 23, 2018
- 2 min
The dead on display
Summary of the University of Southampton "Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies" conference 2018: Met some old friends, made some new...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Mar 18, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Mar 2, 2018
- 3 min
If a body meet a body...
What to do with your old cadaver? Find some thoughts here
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Feb 23, 2018
- 2 min
I ate body!
Last week I mentioned the great auk in Norwich Museum in their Natural History gallery. This week I was reminded of a exercise in writing...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Feb 16, 2018
- 2 min
Relaxing with chickens and paint guns
This week I had one of those light-bulb moments. Of course, it comes in the middle of relaxing in bed, which can be quite disturbing. But...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Feb 7, 2018
- 1 min
Frog pants
Just a quick one today as a bit under the weather. Radio Four (or "the wireless" to many of us who never tune in to any other channel)...
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