In defence of buying a human skeleton
It isn’t about owning a skeleton. It is about access. It is about trust. It is about our shared humanity. It’s about communion with our...
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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
Feb 1, 20192 min read
Do birds have kneecaps?
I've spent a lot of time in the Zoology museum this month, both front of house (helping people find things in the museum, including the...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 4, 20182 min read
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jun 20, 20184 min read
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
Mar 23, 20182 min read
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, 20181 min read
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
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
Aug 18, 20173 min read
Meeting a new skull
So last month I had a chance to meet a new skull. And was invited by a pro to "say what I see". Let's see what I can tell you about a...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 26, 20172 min read
Timeline of death (in art)
After the wonderful, lovely, joyful, belly laughs of the Death and the Maiden conference, I have been resting. I did present the full...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 15, 20172 min read
The Marathon scale of progressive acceptability
Sorry I've been so quiet recently. I had a long rest after Dying for Life, then a push to write up the final bits for my photography...
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Susan Elaine Jones
May 22, 20171 min read
Dying for Life was dead good
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,...
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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 26, 20174 min read
Undiscovered gems of the Cambridge Science Festival… the Duckworth Collection at the LCHES.
18,050* people were at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies last month. *This figure is an estimate. But I guess that 50...
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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 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
Jan 27, 20172 min read
Death in Cambridge
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jan 15, 20173 min read
Don't lose your head. Or your teeth.
This week I have mostly been thinking about decapitations. It started as a casual conversation with someone who will remain anonymous but...
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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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