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...

Much belated post after cold and snot induced vertigo. A second time with bird skeletons in the Zoology Museum, so many more bird...

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...

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...

So this week, month, and some of this year, and years before, I have been contemplating art. In a classic photographic text, I came...

Summary of the University of Southampton "Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies" conference 2018: Met some old friends, made some new...

Quick blog to say sorry for being quiet - I've been manning various events in the Cambridge Science Festival, and now am packing pictures...

Looking for the perfect Christmas present for that friend who still wishes it was Halloween? Buy my book! I know I've mentioned this...

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...

After the wonderful, lovely, joyful, belly laughs of the Death and the Maiden conference, I have been resting. I did present the full...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...