Who got to keep the hand?
I won't even try to describe what events lead me to this little archive treasure. But it is one of those museum catalogue entries that...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Aug 19, 20214 min read
Further adventures in the archives
It has been a crazy week of adventure, triggered by the deep dive into old museum inventories in the Cambridge University Library. Masked...
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Susan Elaine Jones
May 10, 20191 min read
Death Fest 2019!
Death Fest time is here again! Okay, so we never officially called it that. Instead, this month, I've been helping put the final touches...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 10, 20191 min read
Yes, we have kneecaps!
Much belated post after cold and snot induced vertigo. A second time with bird skeletons in the Zoology Museum, so many more bird...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 30, 20182 min read
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 16, 20181 min read
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 9, 20183 min read
Bodyworlds Piccadilly
Not piccalilli. Not peccadillo. Not even Pickled Liver (though there might have been one). Thank you Siri and iphone autocorrect for...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 2, 20183 min read
If a body meet a body...
What to do with your old cadaver? Find some thoughts here
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Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 3, 20171 min read
Books for sale - direct!
Looking for the perfect Christmas present for that friend who still wishes it was Halloween? Buy my book! I know I've mentioned this...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 13, 20171 min read
70 pages of skulls for sale!
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jun 16, 20174 min read
How the sieve changed the skull (or not)
***Correction to this information - see bottom of blog*** Of all the nightmare fodder I shared on the last post, the question that came...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jun 9, 20173 min read
The Malice of Raspberry Seeds
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
May 5, 20172 min read
When I'm dead, I want to go out and meet new people
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Apr 7, 20171 min read
The Fairfax Fozzard font of knowledge
A long overdue update on the magic lantern slides that I acquired at auction, originally from the marvellous J. A. Fairfax Fozzard, the...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 25, 20172 min read
No tea, no biscuits. Just the taste of bone.
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 18, 20172 min read
Strings, pins and dead things
Anatomy illustrations have often switched between the fiction of placing skeletons in lifelike poses and shocking honesty of showing not...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 3, 20173 min read
Thinking about dissection
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Feb 24, 20171 min read
Skulls a plenty
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....
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Susan Elaine Jones
Dec 17, 20163 min read
Who is the skeleton in Norwich Castle?
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 25, 20162 min read
Dr. Auzoux's House of Horror
Okay, not really. I have spent most of my recent Friday's enjoying the wonderful Robert Lloyd Parry (of Nunkie theatre) performing...
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