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The Punished Suicide
Ivan Cenzi brings a strange story of suicide to Death and the Maiden this week. One beginning with sorrow and ending in spectacle. It’s 1863 and on hearing of a young girl’s suicide, anatomist Lodovico...
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Poison Panic: Arsenic Deaths in 1840s Essex
Helen Barrell examines the lives of three apparently ordinary women: Sarah Chesham, Hannah Southgate, and Mary May. 1840s Essex became notorious as a place where women stalked the lanes looking for...
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Protest, politics & power: the tales of martyrs Anne Askew & Margaret Pole
Nikki Shaill, Director of Art Macabre Death Drawing salons and Drawn at the Tower, discusses the lives and deaths of two female martyrs from English history. On Wednesday evening, an event will take...
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Best of 2016
The subject of women and death continued to make frequent headlines this year, as well as issues concerning gender, identity and death, reproductive rights and an examination of our complex and...
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Tubercular Venus: When the Beauty Standard was Dying
If society’s beauty standard dictates a ‘proper’ woman should have pale skin and wear a crinoline that makes it near impossible for her walk through a doorway, chances are, that is a society that...
View ArticleArchaeology, Death Positivity and Public Engagement
Robyn Lacy entered the field of Archaeology with vague ideas of how she wanted to proceed. Every one of which got tossed out the window after a trip to Ireland, surveying rural Catholic and Anglican...
View Article199 Cemeteries To See Before You Die
Following the release of Loren Rhoads new book, 199 Cemeteries to see before you Die.
View ArticleLest We Forget
Artist Sarah Perkins is here to share her beautiful series, Lest We Forget. A project that began life as My Secret London, it tells the story of lesser known London Memorials.
View ArticleLe Bizarreum
Juliette is bring death positivity to France. Her YouTube channel, Le Bizarreum explores death through historical and archaeological cases.
View ArticleMaiden’s Bloom: The Art of Emilia Olsen
Olsen’s faceless maidens, with their pink, sun-kissed flesh, confront their mortality and heartbreak with the age-old symbol of vanitas - a grinning, bleached skull. Much like Persephone dragging the...
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