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HM Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022

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Reading a headstone – popular graveyard symbols and their meanings

Popular graveyard images explained This is the companion piece to my stroll through a graveyard post, which covered a very brief history...

Medieval Death: The Danse Macabre

Ms. 109 (2011.40), fol. 156 c 1493-1510. Getty collection. In the late Middle Ages, life was tough and brief, and King Death presided...

The Paris Morgue – Dark Tourism in the 19th Century

Dark tourism The Paris Morgue on the Quai du Marche. Public domain via Wikimedia. Anyone familiar with David Farrier’s recent Netflix...

The Bonfire of Ballet Girls

In the nineteenth century the epitome of grace and elegance – and sexual frisson – was to be found in the Romantic Ballet. Ballet had...

The Grave Humour of the Georgians

The Grave humour of the Georgians It is well-known that the Victorians had a love of all things macabre and death-related: from elaborate...

Memento Mori…Victorian post-mortem photography

~A note to the faint-hearted: this post contains photographs of dead people ~ The Victorian celebration of death It has been noted by...

The deathly stoop chair of Thomas Busby

Thirsk Museum. Image source Trip Advisor. If you visit the small jewel of a museum in Thirsk you will see the rather strange sight of an...

Ghosts, deadly judges, and the hanging of cousin Charlotte

Our Day of Passing – An Anthology of Short Stories, Poems and Essays Complied by Ingrid Hall and Franco Esposito Free Kindle Download...