Thursday, 25 May 2017

Quite Decent, Mr Kozderka - the astonishing life of Ivan Blatný (1919-1990)

›
In the observation ward of Claybury Hospital   I read the Coming of the Bill.                           Ivan Blatný - Nastoupit v rad ...
1 comment:
Thursday, 18 May 2017

Victory over Blindness - the funeral of Sir Arthur Pearson, 13 December 1921, Hampstead Cemetery

›
The choristers from the Royal Normal School for the Blind at Sir Arthur's graveside Sir Arthur Pearson died on Thursday 9 December ...
Wednesday, 17 May 2017

The final resting place of the great and the good; Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road, NW6

›
"Ever hear about the aviation pioneer kidnapped (and then worshipped) by cannibals?" Me neither but on the 24 June I will find...
4 comments:
Tuesday, 9 May 2017

The dead are with us - 'Here is Where We Meet' John Berger (Bloomsbury £9.98)

›
John Berger at 88, photographed for an interview with the New Statesman On January 2 this year 90 year old John Berger died at his hom...
Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Grave News (April); the dead of London (and elsewhere) in the media

›
Just after Easter I was puzzled by the sudden flurry of interest in “Grave Wax, Corpse Liquor and Kissing Dead Queens – the boundless ...
Thursday, 20 April 2017

The horrible murders, attempted suicides and frighful execution of William Bousfield

›
The 1856 Death Register for Quarter 2 (April to June) unusually records the demise of no less than 8 Bousfields, a surname one would have t...
3 comments: