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Jeremy Bentham – still in the closet after all these years

April 12, 2011

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In the South Cloisters of the main building at University College London (above), is an unassuming wooden cupboard. Inside is the auto-icon of a philosopher. Dressed in his own clothes, and topped with a wax head (the original is preserved elsewhere in the college collections), he has proudly occupied the site since 1850, as specified in his will. The… [Read more…]

“This is not a brain”: doing the Time Warp at the new, improved Grant Museum

March 22, 2011

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UCL’s  Grant Museum of Zoology is once again open to the public, after moving across the street to more spacious premises at the corner of Gower and University Street in Bloomsbury. Its new home is an old library, and a variety of animal and hominid skeletons grin widely as they preside over visitors from the… [Read more…]

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