Tag: Travel

• This Party’s Dead

  Whenever I talk about The Worst Tuesday, people recoil like I’m a coworker oversharing about a rectal exam. I get the sense I’m being violent. I watch their faces as I speak, notice them flinch and their shoulders tense, even though I only mention words like ‘bloated’ to one or two of the most genuinely…

  Death and the Maiden

  11/06/2018

  Guest Post

  Author, Books, Death, Erica Buist, Grief, Grief Disconnect, Language, Loss, Society, This Party’s Dead, Travel, Unbound, Words Against Death, Writer

• 199 Cemeteries To See Before You Die

  

  Following the release of Loren Rhoads new book, 199 Cemeteries to see before you Die.

  Death and the Maiden

  12/12/2017

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  199 Cemeteries To See Before You Die, Activism, Author, Book, Burial, burial ground, Cemetery, Culture, Experiences, Explorer, Graveyard, History, Interview, Loren Rhoads, Social Change, Travel, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, Writer

• The Deathtivals

  For Erica Buist, The Deathtivals Project didn’t come directly out of grief. It came out of her reaction to it. From snooping in a dead man’s fridge to computer investigations, Erica found herself on a journey of extreme anxiety and agoraphobia following the loss of someone it seemed she wasn’t entitled to grieve. This project…

  Death and the Maiden

  13/06/2016

  Guest Post

  Culture, Day of The Dead, Deadmaidens, Death, Experiences, Grief, Loss, Mexico, Mortality, Panic, Research, The Deathtivals, This Is Not A Journey, Travel, Writing

• 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