Tag: Heritage

• A Family Connection

  Social Historian, Sarah Hayes is the Collections and Exhibitions Manager at Newman Brothers Coffin Works in Birmingham. Discovering she had an ancestor working in the funeral trade in Birmingham over 150 years ago, and then of her daughter living on Fleet Street, just ten doors down from what was to become Newman Brothers Coffin Works is almost…

  Death and the Maiden

  13/04/2015

  Guest Post

  Ancestory, Birmingham, Burial, Business, Coffin Works, Coffins, Deadmaidens, Education, Family, Heritage, History, Industry, Museum, Newman Brothers, Objects, Trade

• The Rebozo: Fashion, Feminism and Death

  Death & the Maiden’s own Sarah Chavez presents the rebozo. For centuries, broken-hearted mothers have wrapped their lifeless infants in them for burial and covered their faces with it to signify mourning. The use of the rebozo as a shroud was once so common in Mexico, many artisans created them solely for this purpose, whereas today,…

  Death and the Maiden

  06/04/2015

  Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  Burial Shrouds, Culture, Fashion, Feminism, Frida Kahlo, Good Death, Heritage, History, Las Soldaderas, Latin America, Memento Mori, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Motherhood, Mourning, Pregnancy, Rebozo, Textiles