Dr Frances Larson

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco set out to explore the furthest reaches of the globe. Resisting pernicious sexism and misogyny, they were among the first women to study at university and went on to chart now-vanished worlds, seeking new freedoms in the wastelands of Siberia, the uncharted...

Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls, and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers, and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our...