Saturday, 27 October 2018

Madness in their Methodism; Robert Tilling (1737-1760) Bunhill Fields

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Execution day at Tyburn - the Idle Apprentice by Hogarth Researching the history of Bunhill Fields I came across an intriguing account...
Wednesday, 24 October 2018

From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty (Orion Books £8.99)

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On her website Caitlin Doughty describes herself as a “mortician, activist, and funeral industry rabble-rouser”.  She runs her own non ...
Sunday, 21 October 2018

"Good old Bunhill! Almost every sod a song!"; Bunhill Fields, City Road EC1

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The graves of Daniel Defoe and William Blake Blake, Bunyan and Defoe are probably not names that mean much to today’s school children. ...
Friday, 12 October 2018

Mussulman Rites in an English Churchyard; The Lost Memorials of London, Khwāja Shāhsuwār (1582-1626), St Botolphs, Bishopsgate

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In the ‘Additions and Corrections’ to his 1790 edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London Thomas Pennant says of St Botolph’s, Bishopga...
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Friday, 28 September 2018

Hung, flayed and crucified; the gruesome fate of James Legg (1731-1801)

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  On October 28 1801, 70 year old Chelsea Pensioner James Legg was convicted of the murder of fellow pensioner William Lambe at the Old ...
Friday, 21 September 2018

Deer stalking at Brookwood Cemetery

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Visiting Brookwood Cemetery I did not expect to spend almost as much of my time deer stalking as grave hunting. It had been a last minut...
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Monday, 17 September 2018

Charity Begins at Home; Miriam Levy (1800-1850), Jewish Cemetery, Brady Street

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James Aspinall Turner MP: “All that you infer from this transaction is, that Mr. Levy is a very sharp man of business?” George Ramsay, ...