The London Dead

“This is not a book of consolation: death is simply affliction and the end of our days. We are frail and vulnerable animals.” Seamu...

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

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

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

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

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

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