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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A little over a week until SLEUTH-HOUND is released in the US and UK! If you're in the US, you can get signed copies from @mysteriousbookshop.com. And if you're in the UK, you can get signed and dedicated copies from @foxlanebooks.bsky.social! Info below 👇 linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...

On the left: the US cover for SLEUTH-HOUND, featuring an image of Bell against a dark, chocolate brown background, and ornate details that looks very Sherlockian.

On the right: the UK cover of SLEUTH-HOUND in reds, blacks and whites, featuring an illustration of a poison bottle and fingerprints.

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 16h

Edinburgh folk - you do not want to miss this!

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 18h

Ghosts for October… I’m in the White Horse and Griffin in Whitby, a 17thC coaching inn. The cellar is said to be haunted by Sarah, a servant girl pushed down the barrel hatch by the landlord’s son, who didn’t want her to reveal her pregnancy. Sometimes visitors feel Sarah squeezing their shoulder…

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s good to be adventurous…

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I will never have a shorter journey home after an event.

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In a couple of weeks I’ll be talking about the Medical History of Monsters at Leith’s Argonaut Books argonautbooks.co.uk/event/dxktKi...

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am SO EXCITED to be chatting with Lindsey about her fabulous new book! Come and join us, it’s going to be a brilliant night!

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can’t remember where we watched jt, but think it was by the author of this fabulous book

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Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We’re joined by @anatomicalcat.bsky.social to uncover London’s Great Windmill Street Anatomy Theatre- an 18th century hub that helped transform anatomical teaching and how we see the body. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! shows.acast.com/beyond-the-k...

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Manos: The Hands of AJ 💀🤚🏻 @uisgebeatha.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

More guest entertaining funtimes yesterday: a brilliant talk from @anatomicalcat.bsky.social at Surgeon's Hall along with the best museum merch, a nostalgic Mosque Kitchen trip and Paradise Palms being their supportive self 🫡🏳️‍⚧️

A plush uterus that has eyes, as do the ovaries

A kawaii womb badge with the caption 'cuterus'

The plush avocado at Mosque Kitchen with a chicken tikka masala and lychee juice

A hand dryer with a Wizards For Trans Rights sticker, that has a wizard in a purple robe and hat, fishnets and blue ankle boots

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Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Join us on Thursday for another fascinating lunchtime talk! @anatomicalcat.bsky.social explores the remarkable story of the Great Windmill Street Anatomy School, one of the most important centres for anatomical teaching in eighteenth-century London. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-time...

Image of an etching of the Great Windmill Street Anatomy School placed on a background made to look like old paper. There is text that reads Lunch Time Talk: The Great Windmill Street Anatomy School. Thursday 10 September. 1.15pm

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Lugs a-flappin

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

What's this I see before me... a Romancing the Gothic online conference!!!! With discounted tickets for the next two weeks!!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-terro...

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'More Terrors Than Her Reason Could Justify': An Online Gothic Conference

This year we celebrate 200 years since Ann Radcliffe's posthumous publications with a conference on marginalised genders in the Gothic

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’m going to be in conversation with Maddy Pelling next week, talking about hoaxes and medical history!

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A very happy wedding anniversary to my beloved Contessa, pictured here lying in wait for an unsuspecting maid. Whether she’s terrorising the staff or terrifying the villages, nobody else could do it with the same level of aplomb, élan or, indeed, aggression.

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Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Join us for an engaging Zoom talk with historian and author Madeleine Pelling discussing her new book, Hoax. Madeleine will be in conversation with @anatomicalcat.bsky.social, exploring the fascinating history of hoaxes, frauds, and fakes. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissecting...

Teal gradient background with oversized black letters spelling HOAX filled by a vintage engraved woman's face. There is white text around the large letters which reads: Dissecting the author with Madeleine Pelling. Online Event. Thursday 16 July. 7pm.

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Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

In this fascinating lunchtime talk, @anatomicalcat.bsky.social explores the remarkable story of the Great Windmill Street Anatomy School, one of the most important centres for anatomical teaching in eighteenth-century London. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-time...

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I feel a compulsive need to apologise to everyone I may have traumatised with the STD episode

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

La Contessa, making her rounds of Castle Pieterstein’s grounds, always delights in pausing at the Mirrormere to remember all those whom she has drowned.

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Thank you! Just posted the link to this week’s episode 🖤💀🖤

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

On the latest episode of After Dark featuring me as co-host, Anthony and I are having a calm chat about venereal disease. Horrified? You will be… m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRDB...

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The Gruesome History of Sexual Diseases

YouTube video by After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal

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Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

In this episode, we’re joined by@anatomicalcat.bsky.social as she explores the long and often bizarre history of gonorrhoea, from early diagnoses and eye-watering treatments to the strange phenomenon of “smurf syndrome.” Listen wherever you get your podcasts! shows.acast.com/beyond-the-k...

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

You can also get more Burke and Hare at this lecture that took place at the Physicians’ Gallery last week with me, Janet Philip and Sophie Goggins - now on YouTube! (Spot Maisie!)

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Anatomy: Burke to Bioethics

YouTube video by Physicians' Gallery

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

On today’s episode of After Dark I horrify Anthony with tales from the dark history of dissection. Listen here… shows.acast.com/after-dark-h...

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Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Awesome to hear the ever brilliant @anatomicalcat.bsky.social on today’s episode of After Dark 🙂 open.spotify.com/episode/6oEm...

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Burke & Hare's Serial Killing Dissection Business

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thank you Rebecca, hope you enjoyed! (And more to come…!)

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Oh thank you - hope you’re okay, swift healing to the bruises!

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I’m a guest co-host on After Dark for the next four weeks! Listen to the first episode here: shows.acast.com/after-dark-h...

A woman and a man sat at a table with microphones. The background is purple and behind them is a bookcase with a neon light which says ‘after dark’

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

A wax model showing the muscles of the torso and head made by surgeon André-Pierre Pinson in the late eighteenth century. It’s currently on display in the Musée de l’Homme, Paris.

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

And if you are sad you can’t make these events, never fear! I have exciting news about how I will be coming to your ears very soon, so stay tuned…

A picture of a woman with red curly hair looking up thoughfully

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

And finally I will be at the assembly rooms with the astounding Kate Lister! There are hardly any tickets left for this so grab them while you can! www.fane.co.uk/betwixt-the-...

A poster for Betwixt the Sheets live featuring a framed image of a woman with a fig leaf over her genitalia and pictures of Kate lister, cat Irving and Eleanor Janega

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Next week I will be at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh with Sophie Goggins and Janet Philp talking about the anatomical world of Burke and Hare

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Anatomy: Burke to Bioethics

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This Tuesday I’ll be speaking about the history of dissection and body donation with Prof Paul Rea in the anatomy department of the University of Glasgow. This will include a rare chance to visit the Hunterian Anatomy Museum and discuss the subject further. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/then-and-n...

A poster on a cream back ground with a dissected body and the text ‘Then and Now
A history of Dissection and Body Donation with Professor Paul Rea and Cat Irving
12th May 2026
Lecture Theatre 236
Thomson Building
University of Glasgow’

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I’m going to be a very busy bee for the next two weeks, so if you’re in Edinburgh and Glasgow and want to see me waving my arms around like this while telling tales from the history of anatomy there are no less than FOUR opportunities to do so!

A red haired woman in a black dress walking either arms outstretched with an image of lithotomy on the screen behind her

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Come and join us! Very excited to be talking to these incredible women

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The top of Charles Darwin’s memento mori walking stick, which he used as he got older to remind himself of the preciousness of life. Currently on display at the Wellcome Collection as part of their exhibition ‘The Coming of Age’.

A skull carved out of whale bone/ivory with green jewels on the eye sockets. Against a geeen background

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Thank you so much! 🖤💀🖤

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Just hit ‘send’ on the first draft! CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEAD: The Lives of Human Remains to be published by HarperCollins (UK) and St Martin’s Press (North America) in Spring 2028.

A laptop screen with the words CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEAD: The Lives of Human Remains by Cat Irving

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Here I am on my last visit to the Josephinum a few years ago.

A women with red curly hair and a black velvet dress looking into a glass case holding an wax anatomical model.

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