Rothwell Open Day
Below you will find a release regarding the upcoming Rothwell Open Day. This is a fantastic opportunity that shouldn’t be missed if you have the day free! — An exciting […]
Author Archives: alisonatkin
Nourishing Death
Last week I wrote a guest post for Nourishing Death (a fabulous project – you should check check check it out). Given the post’s death-y nature I reckoned I oughta […]
How Tall is an Alpaca: Or, How Basic Maths Can Change History
This post is an (only very slightly) edited version of the article I submitted to the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2013*. There is a common understanding that people in […]
Chapter 1 (Part 1)
In this very first chapter of Discourse Sherlock outlines “The several Notions of Death, and the Improvement of them.” It is at this point that I begin updating the text […]
The Introduction
This very first proper section of Discourse is quite wordy (although, to be fair much of this book is verbose). As mentioned previously, I will be updating the text as […]
Poor Edward
It has been nearly a year since I began avoiding music. To make a long story very short, the catalytic event was a prolonged period of hearing loss. Then I […]
The Contents
In today’s post on Discourse I will be writing about Sherlock’s reasons for the publication of Discourse, an overview of the chapters, and rather than finally setting about my ultimate […]
A Practical Discourse Concerning Death
In my readings I have come across a very interesting book entitled, A Practical Discourse Concerning Death, written in 1689 by William Sherlock. It was published at a time when […]
PhD Abstract
Before I begin posting about all of the weird and wonderful things I discover during the course of my PhD research, it might be helpful if I let you know […]
Deathsplanation 