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2018
'Sinners prepare to meet your judge!'; Sarah & John Wheatly (died 1790 and 1823), Bunhill Fieldsoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2018
Entropy sucks; “To Be A Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death.” Mark O’Connell (Granta £9.99)original ↗
27 Jul 2018
Death by water; Antonio Pedro da Gama Lobo Salema de Souza e Vasconcellos (1963-1989), Putney Vale Cemeteryoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2018
Stealing a complexion denied by nature - Joseph Paul Crocker (1834-1869), Brompton Cemeteryoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2018
23 Apr 2018
6 Apr 2018
'The Worm at the Core; On the Role of Death in Life' Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg & Tom Pyszczynski (Penguin £9.99)original ↗
4 Apr 2018
10 Mar 2018
31 Jan 2018
2017
An eminent botanist, a living fossil and the man who fell to earth; Friedrich Welwitsch (1806-1872), Kensal Green Cemeteryoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2017
15 Oct 2017
Sometimes the one, sometimes the other - Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalier d'Éon (1728-1810), Old St Pancras burial groundoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2017
The Archaeologists and the Archbishop's teeth; Arthur Richard Dillon (1721 - 1806) Old St Pancras Burial Groundoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2017
5 Sept 2017
29 Aug 2017
21 Jul 2017
Dean Swift and the Star Gazing Cobbler - John Partridge (1644-1715), St Mary's churchyard, Mortlakeoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2017
Cemetery Club presents 'Stories From The Stones: The Great & the Good of Hampstead Cemetery' 24th June 2017original ↗
1 Jul 2017
Sleeping with the alien Portuguese: Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Cemitério dos Ingleses, Lisbonoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2017
The King of Little Italy: Luigi Fraulo (1857-1914), St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Greenoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2017
Victory over Blindness - the funeral of Sir Arthur Pearson, 13 December 1921, Hampstead Cemeteryoriginal ↗
18 May 2017
The final resting place of the great and the good; Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road, NW6original ↗
17 May 2017
20 Apr 2017
The Other Andrew Ducrow; Andrew Ducrow fils (1842-1863) Rangiriri Cemetery, North Island, New Zealandoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2017
20 Mar 2017
The devil and the book duster; the extraordinary London life of Mohammed Ali Khan (or perhaps Daood Mukranee) 1857-1863?original ↗
11 Mar 2017
31 Jan 2017
Sex, Lies & Parchment; The Pepys' Motet - Benjamin Till; Elisabeth (1640-1669) and Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) St Olaves, Hart Streetoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2017
The Batman of Rorke's Drift and the Australasian Impostor; Arthur Howard (1851-1935) Brockley& Ladywell Cemeteryoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2017
The Changeling - fairy born and human bred; James Miranda Stuart Barry/Margaret Ann Bulkley (1789-1865) Kensal Green Cemeteryoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2017
2016
30 Dec 2016
"Franz Kafka was my lover"; Dora Diamant (1898-1952) United Synagogue Cemetery, Marlow Road, East Hamoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2016
How to Rise in Society, the Housemaid's Tale; Stephen Lancaster Lucena (1805-1876) and Anne Maria Lucena (1834-1908), Lavender Hill Cemetery, Enfieldoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2016
13 Nov 2016
Dead Man Walking, the Great Explorer's Last Journey; David Livingstone (1813-1873) Westminster Abbeyoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2016
22 Oct 2016
15 Oct 2016
The parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty land springs of water; Ernest Schwarz of the Kalahari (1873-1928), Willesden New Cemeteryoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2016
London's Dead: A guided tour of the capital's dead - Ed Glinert (Harper Collins 2008, out of print)original ↗
1 Oct 2016
26 Sept 2016
The Georgie Girl who Died on Honeymoon; Georgina Robinson (died 1965) Willesden New Cemeteryoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2016
"Let me have your wife's head and I will give you a pound." How a tooth extraction which went wrong led to a strange dispute between the surgeons of St. Thomas' Hospital and a sailor man.original ↗
18 Sept 2016
Vagrant monkeys, stewed cat and the heart of a dog - from the casebook of the Solomon of Marlborough Street; Sir George Farrant (1770-1844) Kensal Green Cemeteryoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2016
How a Man may Owe his Life to Small Change and Spiced Gingerbread Nuts: Peter Burrowes (1753-1841) Kensal Green Cemeteryoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2016
A want of honour in her own conduct led to this fatal catastrophe; Harriet Shelley (1795-1816) St Mary's, Paddington Greenoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2016
31 Jul 2016
Making a Fortune in French Fancy Goods: Otto Adolph Victor Alexander Berens (1757-1860) West Norwood Cemeteryoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2016
Grave Wax, Corpse Liquor and Kissing Dead Queens – the boundless curiosity of the Gentlemen of the 17th Centuryoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2016
The Public Are Permitted To Walk In The Cemetery Daily; Brompton Cemetery's uneasy relationship with the general publicoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016
Lizzie Le Blond and her Three Husbands; Elizabeth Alice Frances Hawkins-Whitshed (1860-1934) Brompton Cemeteryoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2016
The Art of Memory; Sculpture in the Cemeteries of London by Richard Barnes (Frontier Publishing £44)original ↗
31 May 2016
The comfortable Estate of Widowhood, is the only Hope that keeps up a Wife's Spirits; Auguste Kettner (1833-1877) Brompton Cemeteryoriginal ↗
25 May 2016
Silence - A Figure For A Tomb: Harry Dwight Dillon Ripley (1864-1913) St Marylebone Cemetery, East Finchleyoriginal ↗
14 May 2016
The Pall Mall Monkey and the Bengal Hospital; the Boodles and Mitfords of Chipping Ongar, Essexoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2016
"Immortal Rich! how calm he sits at ease, mid snows of paper, and fierce hail of pease"; John Rich (1692-1761), St John the Baptist, Hillingdonoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2016