Tag: London

• Lest We Forget

  

  Artist Sarah Perkins is here to share her beautiful series, Lest We Forget. A project that began life as My Secret London, it tells the story of lesser known London Memorials.

  Death and the Maiden

  28/12/2017

  Guest Post

  Art, Creation, Creative, Hidden History, History, Hyde Park, Illustration, Lest We Forget, London, Pet Cemetery, Postman’s Park, Sarah Perkins Illustration, The Cross Bones Graveyard

• Tea, Cake & Death

  This week is all about The Big Conversation as it’s Dying Matters Awareness Week (9th – 15th of May). We learn from the Mary Poppins of Death herself, Louise Winter, that talking about death can be as easy as tea & cake. From Brooklyn to The Isle of Wight. The more we engage with death…

  Death and the Maiden

  09/05/2016

  Guest Post

  Bestival, Celebrant, Celebrate, Change, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Cafe, Dying, Dying Matters, Engagement, Events, Experiences, Funeral, Funeral Celebrant, Future, London, Morbid Anatomy

• The Crime Museum Uncovered

  Yesterday, after six months this long awaited exhibition at the Museum of London came to an end. With plans for New Scotland Yard to close the future of the Metropolitan Police’s infamously known “Black Museum” is uncertain. This carefully curated exhibition allowed the public to experience a selection of the items found inside. Many still…

  Death and the Maiden

  10/04/2016

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Crime, Deadmaidens, Death, Ethics, Exhibits, Forensic, History, Investigation, London, Metropolitan Police, Murder, Museum, Museum of London, Object Biography, Objects, Public Display, Society, The Crime Museum, Weapons

• Drawn at the Tower

  When the wonderful people at Art Macabre invited Death & the Maiden’s own Lucy Talbot to experience the first Drawn at the Tower, a series of events at the Tower of London after dark, how could she say no? Particularly when it would be the She Wolf of France walking into the beautiful low lit…

  Death and the Maiden

  28/01/2016

  Guest Post

  Art, Art Macabre, Charles I, Charles II, Creation, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death Drawing, Drawn at the Tower, Event, Experiences, Historic Royal Palaces, History, London, Music, Odette Toilette, Queen Isabella, Scent, Strewing Herbs, The She Wolf, The Tower of London

• Excavation & Emotion

  I have been asking archaeologists how they go about their work as professionals and people as part of my PhD research in which I am exploring what impact emotion has on the practice of UK mortuary archaeology. I have interviewed and worked alongside field, forensic, academic, student and museum archaeologists, as well as osteologists and…

  Death and the Maiden

  03/08/2015

  Guest Post

  Academic, Archaeology, Burial, Career, Deadmaidens, Death, Emotion, Excavation, Experiences, Fieldwork, Human Remains, London, Mortuary Archaeology, PhD, Practice, Research, Spitalfields, Study

• Skeletons in My Life’s Closet

  Jelena Bekvalac is a Curator of Human Osteology at the Centre for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London. As a life course becoming a museum curator and working with human skeletal remains was not one that she carefully planned. From exciting opportunities in London to excavations in Jordan and Prague Jelena takes us on a journey down her fascinating…

  Death and the Maiden

  19/06/2015

  Guest Post

  Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Career, Curator, Deadmaidens, Death, Excavation, Exhibitions, Experiences, Human Remains, London, Museum, Museum of London, Osteology, Research, Skeletal Remains, Skeletons, Travel, Wellcome Trust