Dr Lindsey Fitzharris

I am ready! 😂

COVID hit and the industry fell apart. The Head of Smithsonian Channel (where it originally aired) was fired and replaced by someone who got rid of most of the history programming. I would have loved to do another season!

Top of gravestone with winged and breasted angel.

Liberton Kirk, Edinburgh. Not as dramatic, but definitely out there.

Omg thanks for these! I thought this was an oddity. Turns out it wasn’t!

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18th century Massachusetts was very into gravestone boobs! It was one of their important theological metaphors: the two Testaments as soul-nourishing breasts for spiritual babes

A close up of an ornate gravestone featuring a crude drawing of a woman with droopy breasts.

It's #MementoMoriMonday, so I thought I'd share this absolutely wild gravestone of Prudence Hammond who died in 1711. It's located in Watertown, Massachusetts - and it's certainly... memorable!

Photo: Gravestones of New England

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An abundance of breasts!

Graveside plaque that reads: In Memory of SARAH JARVIS Who departed this life the 11th Day of December 1753 In the Hundred and Seventh Year of her Age Some Time before her Death She had Fresh Teeth

I feel like this lady and this other woman from Wiltshire, England might have been kindred spirits.

If speedos are mandatory, then mustaches are also mandatory!

I didn't realize she had a new podcast - gonna check it out now! Do they have guests? I'd love to send you both a copy of the new book (SLEUTH-HOUND) which is out in October - all about the "real Sherlock Holmes" and Victorian forensics.

A new episode is up! Which Planet Has The Most Moons?

Daniel and Kelly revel in the amazing multiplicity of moons in our solar system and what they reveal about our cosmic history!

So much to unpack 😂

This grave is already 300+ years old - it's never gonna fade 😂

Droopy boobs forever

A close up of an ornate gravestone featuring a crude drawing of a woman with droopy breasts.

It's #MementoMoriMonday, so I thought I'd share this absolutely wild gravestone of Prudence Hammond who died in 1711. It's located in Watertown, Massachusetts - and it's certainly... memorable!

Photo: Gravestones of New England

More info: shorturl.at/ldIcG

Tod als Marionette mit rotem Halstuch und rosa Schuhen. Unten Teufel im Hintergrund eine Geige als Silhouette

Der Tod trägt rosa Schuhe.
#MementoMoriMonday

Ivory carving of death as a skeleton partially wrapped in a shroud, sitting on the edge of a tomb, elbow on an hourglass and hand on head. The picture of despair.

#MementoMoriMonday mood.

1547 ivory
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

An angel with a skull and sheaves of corn on the 1686 memorial to Thomas Robertson in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. It was inside the church originally, but was removed in the major restoration of 1883.
#MemorialsMonday #MonumentsMonday #MementoMoriMonday

10 Books I’m Excited for in 2026 I know this is a few months late, so some of these books will have already come out. But there are a ton of books that I am excited about that are coming out this year. I’m thinking this will…

This week's blog contains 10 books I am excited for in 2026.
Some of these books have already come out, but I really wanted to put out a list of books I'm excited for in the first half of the year.

Cover of the book of Gorey's series of unfortunate children. A crowd of children packed together under an umbrella held by Death in the form of a tall man in a black coat, wearing black gloves, and a black band trailing off from the band of his tall hat.

The Ghashlycrumb Tinies - Edward Gorey

She defied King John. She defied death. All for her son.
This Mother's Day (UK!) why not read Tower of Vengeance and discover what Maude sacrificed for her son. Would you do the same?
 #MothersDayReads #HistoricalFiction #MedievalFiction #GhostStory #TowerofLondon #KindleDeal

Two black and white photos of a soldier who has received a facial injury during World War I. In the first photo, his injuries are on display. In the second photo, he is wearing a facial prosthetic (mask) that covers his injuries.

Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #InternationalWomensDay🧵

From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1

Facebook post showing two of my caricatures, of Doc Brown, and a scene from Fawlty Towers. The text reads... 'If you've watched spitting image you might recognise the style of artist @tealcartoons. We have these two amazing originals unframed in our gallery. We love his style and he's a great friend of the gallery, you might have caught him mentioning us on a recent Radio Northampton appearance. He captures the character of the people and the moment perfectly. You can just hear their voices in the scene as soon as you see them. We'd love to see you at our grand opening tomorrow (Saturday 7th). We'll have fizz and nibbles and a lot of our artists will be popping by at various times throughout the day.'

It's a pleasure to be selling my work via @jackdawgalleryart.bsky.social. Please give them a follow here. They are a fantastic new gallery, and it's more important than ever that we support anyone selling real art by real people.

#caricature #art

Caricature sketch of the four principal incarnations of Edmund Blackadder, as played by Rowan Atkinson, arranged in diamond formation.

Caricature painting of The Beatles, painted on four separate diamond-shaped panels, which are themselves arranged into a diamond shape.

I should get around to beginning my Blackadder quadriptych this week, for my forthcoming solo exhibition at @quirkyfox.bsky.social. It will be in the same format as my Beatles piece.

#caricature #art

Yes - and we must also recognize that as doctors and nurses got better at patching these men up, they were being sent right back to the Front, and thus the medical advances were inadvertently responsible for prolonging the war, too.

The Dutch version featuring a photo of a soldier without a face.

The Polish version featuring a man's face, and half of it shows the underlying anatomical structure.

I also love the UK cover - which was designed by my British publisher, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. Each foreign publisher comes up with a new cover. It's fun to see the ways in which one's work is interpreted in different markets. Here are a few other covers (Dutch and Polish). /End

Harold Gillies's book, THE PRINCIPLES AND ART OF PLASTIC SURGERY, featuring a photo of his gloved hands holding various medical instruments against a green background.

The US cover is an homage to Harold Gillies's own book on plastic surgery - which features his hands holding instruments. My husband @tealcartoons.bsky.social took that concept and added the reflection of the wounded soldier to convey that this is not a story about one person, but many people. /8

The US and UK book covers for THE FACEMAKER. The US cover is green and features a hand holding a scalpel. In the blade's reflection is a bandaged soldier. The UK cover features an illustration of a World War I Tommy, and his face is made up of many different faces.

You can learn more about Sir Harold Gillies, Anna Coleman Ladd, and the disfigured soldiers of the First World War in my book, THE FACEMAKER - available wherever books are sold. Below is the US cover (left) and UK cover (right). /7

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A black and white photo of patients outside Harold Gillies's hospital, along with staff member. Some of the patients have bandages on their faces.

It was there that he assembled a unique group of practitioners that included artists and mask makers. Their task was to restore what had been torn apart, to recreate what had been destroyed. Gillies and his team restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits /6

A photo of Harold Gillies sitting in an operating theatre during World War I, along with three nurses and another male staff member.

My book, THE FACEMAKER, is about the pioneering surgeon Harold Gillies, who rebulit soldiers' faces during World War I. Gillies established the world’s first hospital dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. /5

A photo showing two soldiers who have facial injuries wearing masks and playing cards.

The metal was painted with hard enamel to resemble the recipient's skin tone. Ladd then used real hair to create the eyelashes, eyebrows and moustaches. Had it not been for her efforts, many of these men would have lived in isolation. /4