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Cat Irving @AnatomicalCat

Human remains conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer.

Joined January 2018
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Cat Irving@AnatomicalCat
12 Jan 2022
This is a @medpagetoday article by forensic pathologist @drjudymelinek on the recent public dissection in Portland, Oregon. In it, she talks to me about some of the history of public dissection (free to read but you do need to register) medpagetoday.com/opinion/wor…

Opinion | Pay-Per-View Autopsy: Sideshow or Science?

Dissecting the history and ethics of public autopsy

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For our next ‘Dissecting the Author’ event at @surgeonshall, I’ll be discussing this wonderful book with Prof. Claire Brock. This is online this Thursday, and you don’t need to have read the book to attend. Come and join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissectin…

Dissecting the Author: Women Surgeons and their Patients with Claire Brock

Join this zoom event where we discuss British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918 with author Claire Brock

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I’ve been speaking to @ScottBorder1 for the Teaching and Scholarship podcast - listen here! meinpodcast.libsyn.com/cat-i…

The Teaching and Scholarship Podcast: Cat Irving

In epiosde 77 we talk to Cat Irving who is a human remains conservator at Surgeon's Hall, Edinburgh. After her postgraduate training in museum studies at Leicester, she became a licensed anatomist...

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Early Career Anatomists
@ECAnatomists
13 May 2025
Time for an #ECA25 Speaker announcement! 🤩 We are excited to have Cat Irving (@AnatomicalCat) from @surgeonshall and @hunterian join us to discuss 'Things in Jars: A Potted History of Fluid Preservation in Anatomical Collections' Check out ecanatomists.org for all the details about #ECA25 at @UniofNottingham Ticket sales close 9th June (In-Person) and 20th June (Online).
Image with a green background advertising the Early Career Anatomists 2025 conference at University of Nottingham. The Early Career Anatomists logo is in the top left corner - a skull sitting on top of a pile of 3 books coloured red, yellow, and blue, with a scalpel blade on the top book and forceps lying in front of the book pile. The text on the image reads: Early Career Anatomists. 4th Annual Hybrid Conference. ECA 25. 'Things in Jars: A Potted History of Fluid Preservation in Anatomical Collections' with Cat Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh and Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. There is an image of Cat Irving to the right of the image in a circular frame. Anatomy Unbound: Integrating Discipline & Connecting Generations. 23rd & 24th June 2025. University of Nottingham (logo). Ticket sales close 9th June (in-person). @ECAnatomists. www.ecanatomists.org.

ALT Image with a green background advertising the Early Career Anatomists 2025 conference at University of Nottingham. The Early Career Anatomists logo is in the top left corner - a skull sitting on top of a pile of 3 books coloured red, yellow, and blue, with a scalpel blade on the top book and forceps lying in front of the book pile. The text on the image reads: Early Career Anatomists. 4th Annual Hybrid Conference. ECA 25. 'Things in Jars: A Potted History of Fluid Preservation in Anatomical Collections' with Cat Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh and Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. There is an image of Cat Irving to the right of the image in a circular frame. Anatomy Unbound: Integrating Discipline & Connecting Generations. 23rd & 24th June 2025. University of Nottingham (logo). Ticket sales close 9th June (in-person). @ECAnatomists. www.ecanatomists.org.
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A plate from Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty’s “Suite de l’Essai d’anatomie en tableaux imprimés” from 1745. This illustration is often known as The Flayed Angel. I’ve seen a number of original editions of Gautier d’Agoty’s books in various places and they’re always stunning.
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This will be amazing, not least because I shall be the host…!
Daniel Pietersen@pietersender
25 Feb 2025
A timely reminder that this is just over a week away! Ticket link 👇
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Daniel Pietersen@pietersender
9 Feb 2025
Just a few weeks now until my next lecture for @TheLastTuesdayS where I’ll be talking about Dante’s Inferno and asking serious questions like what drove Dante to write such a work, how has it informed modern ideas of Hell and what’s up with this lad’s head?! Ticket link 👇
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Daniel Pietersen@pietersender
30 Dec 2024
I thought I’d do a quick recap of the year and some of the events I was involved in through 2024. Quite a mixed bag of gothic- and horror-adjacent delights so do read on 👇
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Daniel Pietersen@pietersender
1 Dec 2024
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me, among the people lost for e’re… My first lecture of 2025 is up on the @TheLastTuesdayS site and we will be exploring the bowels of Dante’s Inferno! Ticket link below 👇
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A decomposing figure holds up its own heart for contemplation. This transi was produced by sculptor François Pompon in the 19thC, and it’s in the Palais de beaux arts in Lille. It’s a reproduction of the one produced for the tomb of René de Chalon in Bar le Duc in the 16thC.
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On the shelf, it would look like an ordinary book, but when opened you’d find drawers to hide poison. The inside cover has a woodcut from Vesalius’ De Fabrica. The glass bottle says STATUT UM EST HOMINIBUS SEMEI MORI - it is well established that all men die once. From 1682
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Bluesky, any one? @anatomicalcat.bsky.social
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I’m also on Instagram as @AnatomicalCat
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A collection of calculi in Venice
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Daniel Pietersen@pietersender
14 Nov 2024
I’m running an author event with the excellent @edward_parnell for @argonaut_books on Tuesday next week. We’ll be discussing all things ghostly and ghoulish, with reference to Ed’s books - Ghostland (@HarperCollinsUK) and Eerie East Anglia (@BL_Publishing) Tix 👇
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Eleanor Crook Sculpt@CrookEleanor
13 Nov 2024
A memento mori etching, from a couple of years ago
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Well just look what showed up today…! I’m chapter 7
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Daniel Pietersen@pietersender
8 Nov 2024
If you long for a copy of I Am Stone whose value has been considerably reduced by the gnarled claw of Thee Editor then @BL_Shop is the place for you, you big weirdo
Daniel Pietersen@pietersender
8 Nov 2024
Quick hang out with the #TalesOfTheWeird crew in @BL_Shop (@BL_Publishing)
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