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<\/a><\/p>\nAli Wells <\/a>is a curator at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum<\/a> in Coventry.\u00a0 I had the pleasure of meeting Ali when we were on a panel together with Shane McCorristine at the “Corpses, Cadavers, and Catalogues: The mobilities of dead bodies and body parts, past and present<\/a>” conference in London in May. Ali’s excellent paper on a remarkable artefact in the Herbert’s collections is the basis of her upcoming post, and helped us bond over the material and affective afterlives of the Murder Act pretty much immediately.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A very warm Criminal Corpse welcome to Ali and Patrick!\u00a0 Now, watch this space for their fascinating posts…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here at the Power of the Criminal Corpse blog, it has been a great year.\u00a0 All of our project team members have contributed, and our posts have been used in undergraduate teaching, spread with interest across social media, and have even nabbed the attention of the university’s press office.\u00a0 Even better, it has provided a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,38,2,5,3,7,11],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-collaboration","tag-conference","tag-criminal-corpse","tag-history","tag-interdisciplinarity","tag-post-mortem-punishment","tag-university-of-leicester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/crimcorpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/crimcorpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/crimcorpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/crimcorpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/crimcorpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/crimcorpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/crimcorpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/crimcorpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/crimcorpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/crimcorpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Patrick Low <\/a>is an expert in the history of execution in the North-East of Britain.\u00a0 His research blog, http:\/\/wwww.lastdyingwords.wordpress.com\/, is a must read (seriously, go now and read) and Patrick will shortly be completing his PhD at Sunderland University.\u00a0 We met at the “Corpses, Cadavers, and Catalogues” conference, and connected over histories of execution and punishment.<\/p>\n