Contents

List of blog posts:

• The Dead of the Titanic: The Mackay Bennett, Embalming, and Burial
• Death and Lana Del Rey: From Glamour to Grief
• An archaeologist visits Bodyworlds
• The post-mortem fate of Elvis Presley: Another case study in bodily integrity
• The Death of Anne Lister: Her Post-Mortem Fate
• When Lightning Strikes: The Tragic Story of the ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Grave
• Death on Display: The Dead in the National Museum of Ireland: Archaeology
• The Archaeology of Quarantine: Four Examples of Disease Quarantining in the Archaeological Record
• Dead Merry: Traditions from the past and present that remember the dead at Christmas
• Public interactions with human remains: Sedlec Ossuary
• Irish Women and Death Series: Dr Dorothy Stopford Price and the Introduction of the BCG Vaccine.
• Irish Women and Death Series: The Last Witch Killing in Ireland in 1895
• The Archaeology of Assassination: Grief, Gore, and Glorification.
• The Victorians as Dark Tourists: Mortality, Morbidity, and the Macabre.
• Coffin Ships: Death whilst trying to escape death during the Irish Potato Famine
• Documenting Death: Netflix Documentaries on Death Worth Watching
• From Embalming to Eyeballs: Five (More) Fantastic Books About Death
• The Archaeology of Vaccination (18th- 20th Centuries): An Examination of Four Diseases
• Death Folklore in Ireland: Three Examples of Death Omens in Irish Culture
• Death and Sex: The Sexualisation of Victorian Women’s Mourning Attire
• The post-mortem fate of Marilyn Monroe: a case study of bodily integrity in death
• A Bearded Woman, Embalmed: The post-mortem display of Julia Pastrana in the 19th century
• The Archaeology of Witchcraft in England: An Examination of a Dark History Through Five Objects
• Museums and Human Remains: Repatriation, Display, and Storage.
• Embalming: A Help or Hindrance to Grief? A Personal and Professional Experience
• The Depiction of Embalming in Art: From Pharaohs to Presidents.
• The Embalming of Maria Van Butchell by William Hunter and William Cruickshank, 1775.
• The Archaeology of Brain Injury: Examples of Cases and Understanding from the Archaeological and Historical Record.
• Ancient Egyptian Embalming in Gaming: Assassins Creed Origins
• Who was ‘Typhoid Mary’? Mary Mallon and the fever of early 20th Century New York City
• The Archaeology of Public Execution in 19th Century Britain: a narrative told through the examination of three accused.
• The Archaeology of Victorian Grief: Looking at how the 19th Century mourned their dead and how it has shaped today’s practices.
• The Archaeology of Epidemics: Disease, Death and Dying.
• Plastination: Life (and Death) in Plastic, it’s Fantastic?
• Alchemy and Embalming: The Surprising Merge of Two Scientific Arts
• Embalming Fluid in Archaeology: What Did We Use to Preserve our Dead? The Discussion of Four Bodies
• From Archaeology to Autopsy: Five Fantastic Books about Death.
• The First Female Anatomist: Who Was Alessandra Giliani?
• The archaeology of embalming in four objects: an overview of intended preservation practices.
• Bare, Bereft and Beautiful: The Anatomical Venus