Philosopher Jeremy Bentham's severed head will put on display for exhibit, with scientists also looking to see if the famed eccentric may have had autism. Bentham, who died in 1832, was a leading ...

Jeremy Bentham had a problem. He may have been dead, but that wasn't it—the iconoclastic philosopher left strict instructions about what to do with his body after his demise in 1832, and they didn't ...

DEEP in the bowels of one of Britain's oldest universities lies a tourist attraction that's like no other. The preserved corpse of kooky 19th century philosopher Jeremy Bentham, dressed up in his ...

One day toward the beginning of March, an unusual object arrived at a New York City airport. Carefully encased in a foam-padded, specially built wooden chair and strapped in with a bright-blue sash, ...

“I was in there on Monday recording the trailer for Cats,” says Becky Bentham casually, gesturing across the garden of Abbey Road Studios, while showing me round the iconic North London building.

The body of philosopher Jeremy Bentham is the star attraction of UCL's new Student Centre. Not everyone is happy. Have you ever been to see the body of Jeremy Bentham? His dressed skeleton (minus head ...

The auto-icon of 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham will travel from London to New York for an exhibition at the Met Breuer that explores the human body. “Jeremy Bentham” (France, modeled 1830, ...

In his will, Bentham requested that his body be preserved and fashioned into what he called an "auto-icon", a task which was carried out by his friend, surgeon Thomas Southwood Smith. What is his ...

Since University College London began transcribing the papers of the Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham more than 50 years ago, it has published 27 volumes of his writings less than half of the ...