Prittlewell Prince Update
Read a report in the news recently on the finds at the Saxon burial at Prittlewell, Essex.
Author: Sceotan
Shrunken Heads Oxford Museum Sets Example
Pitt Rivers Museum is reportedly setting an example by considering removing shrunken heads from display after receiving complaints from indigenous South American people. This is an interesting precedent. If you are an indigenous person...
HS2 – An Exciting Opportunity to Dig up the Dead
In an article in The Times today, depressing for its gung ho approach to grave desecration across the ages, an excited Ms Wass (head of ‘heritage’ on the HS2 project, would you believe) said…...
DCMS Guidance Correspondence
Report on Honouring the Ancient Dead’s request to DDCMS for an update of their 2005 Guidance on the Care of Human Remains in Museums Sarah Levitt, HAD Board Member Although it has some flaws,...
Letter to Michael Ellis MP
HAD recently wrote to Michael Ellis MP, Undersecretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism at the DCMS to lobby for a review of the situation regarding exhumation and care of ancestors. You can...
National Trust accused of Stonehenge tunnel betrayal
According to an article in today’s Times ‘The National Trust has been accused of misleading members over the damage that the proposed tunnel near Stonehenge could wreak on the monument.‘
‘Irish giant’ may finally get respectful burial after 200 years on display
On Friday 22 June 2018 the Guardian raised the prospect that the Hunterian medical museum is considering releasing the skeleton of “the Irish Giant,” Charles Byrne, for burial at sea, according to his last...
Dead Images
We were invited recently to contribute to the Dead Images project, which explores the legacy of human skull collection within the Natural History Museum, Vienna. In particular, their display of thousands of skulls collected right...
‘People not objects’
Surely this applies to ‘non-Idigenous’ people everywhere too, ancestors or otherwise? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43927157
A Tale of Two Skulls – in pubs
“What a skull in an English pub says about India’s 1857 mutiny“. This article appeared in the press today. It features the grim story from the Indian mutiny of 1857. The skull in question passed...
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