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Historian of undertakers and funerals in Eighteenth Century England. Researching the trade and their goods. Visiting Research Fellow at CDAS @UniofBath

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Saw Winslow Homer: Force of Nature at the weekend. A fascinating first UK overview of his works from the American South to the stormy shores of Cullercoats and through the perilous seas. Many great loans from US galleries and beyond (On until 8 Jan)

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Enjoying the late opening at and a chance to see some of medical and death-related items on display - from the instruments used by practitioners of the past to memento mori encouraging people to think of the end

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Gazing around Hogarth’s election series is always a treat too! One of the standout bits of the warren of rooms!

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A dance of death scene in which a series of enthusiastic skeletons lead the living in a reluctant dance. One skeleton provides the music for the dancers and a small dog joins in too. Watercolour and pen by Gesina ter Borch. c1660-87 ()

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A purr-fect pair from for - A cat tile made in Bristol c.1750 and a cat (with gift) from Rolinda Sharples’ “The Village Gossips”

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Johann Daniel von Menzel is menaced by a hatted skeleton. One bony hand reaches around him and another holds on to the barrel of the gun. Gabriel Bodenehr. 18th cent. ()

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Really looking forward to this evening’s event on Ireland and past pandemics

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Time stands over the skeletal form of Death in this engraving by Aegidius II Sadeler. Bartholomeus Spranger has been spared but death has claimed his wife Christina. A putto reveals a skull. 1600 (From the free Printmaking in Prague exhibition at )

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As the apothecary serves a crowd of eager customers we can see his assistant Death using the mortar behind a curtain to mix poison. From Rowlandson’s Death and the apothecary - part of the exhibition at )

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The three living riders react with surprise at the appearance of the three dead. The three cadaverous figures have tattered shrouds still clinging to them and are a reminder of what the riders will become. 14th cent. ()

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