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

Sorry for a period of quiet, I've had a bit of a tooth ache and been trying to book a visit to a dentist. It's all because raspberries...

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...

18,050* people were at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies last month. *This figure is an estimate. But I guess that 50...

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....

Modern Day Mourning What is mourning? Is it sadness, loss of appetite, inability to cope or the process of shutting your emotions off? In...

I was asked by my college to write an encouraging post to future students on receiving arts council funding. I turned it into a...

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...

Today I saw a lovely, informative image from the Biologist's Apprentice on Facebook. Which made me realise that I would not normally have...

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...

What's not to like? Another of the gems from the Norwich Museum. The stories of these murderers, briefly: Catherine Frarey and Frances...

I enjoyed a smashing visit to Norwich Castle Museum a couple of weekends ago. I spent much of my time in the Natural History Gallery. As...

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

Okay, not really. I have spent most of my recent Friday's enjoying the wonderful Robert Lloyd Parry (of Nunkie theatre) performing...