The London Dead

  Have you seen Bruce Richard Reynolds? He's a man you must detain. He's wanted for the robbery of the Glasgow / Euston train. Age t...

I thought that an exhibit of a complete human skeleton sitting upright in a giant earthenware pot, would leap out at me when I visited the P...

  α My name is...                  β what does it matter?           α My country is…                 β And what does that matter either?    ...

  John and Margaret Whiting lived a stone’s throw away from the church of St Bartholomew the Great, in Long Lane. We don’t know what he did ...

As the dead don’t vote and they don’t pay rates they are generally of little interest to ambitious local politicians. But in 1986 the then l...

Surely the eye-catching headstone of illustrator Peter Jackson in Highgate Cemetery was designed by himself? The author of “London Is Strang...

  Chingford Mount was opened as a non-conformist burial ground by the Abney Park Cemetery Company in 1884 when the 32 acres of the company’s...