Monday, 30 October 2017

'The Apostle of Peace'; Henry Richard (1812-1888) Abney Park Cemetery

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Since Lytton Strachey punctured the reputations of his ‘Eminent Victorians’ it is impossible to accept at face value the assessments ma...
Thursday, 26 October 2017

Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington

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  The Venezuelan electronica and hip hop musician Alejandro Ghersi, better known by his stage name Arca, lives in Hackney and found at ...
Sunday, 15 October 2017

199 Cemeteries To See Before You Die - Loren Rhoads (Black Dog Publishing £14.99)

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A bucket list of cemeteries? It doesn’t sound like a potential bestseller but Hachette imprint Black Dog Books has lavished enormous car...
Saturday, 30 September 2017

Sometimes the one, sometimes the other - Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalier d'Éon (1728-1810), Old St Pancras burial ground

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d'Eon's entry in the St Pancras burial register The counter-examinations and declarations of the two sets of Surgeons respecti...
Friday, 22 September 2017

'East End Jewish Cemeteries' by Louis Berk (Amberley Books) £14.99

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The often tiny Jewish cemeteries dotted around the east end are exotic vestiges of a London’s lost Mitteleuropan past.   Surrounded by ...
Friday, 8 September 2017

The Archaeologists and the Archbishop's teeth; Arthur Richard Dillon (1721 - 1806) Old St Pancras Burial Ground

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The entry in the St Pancras burial register for Arthur Richard Dillon It is odd that a French Catholic Archbishop fleeing from anti-cle...
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Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Preserving God's Acre - the Burdett Coutts Memorial Sundial, St Pancras Gardens

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The Burdett Coutts Memorial sundial with St Pancras Hospital (the old workhouse) in the background The Baroness Burdett Coutts and the...