Remembering Edwin Glover Bingham
Photograph: Edwin Glover Bingham with the choir at St Augustine's Wrangthorn A guest blog from Maureen Kershaw Born in 1948 I don't have memories of...
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A Wompra Family History
By Imogen Gerard and Kelsie Root The Leeds General Cemetery is a former cemetery on the University of Leeds campus now known as St George’s Field....
A family of 25 whose story is told through the Leeds General Cemetery
By Imogen Gerard and Kelsie Root Burials can reveal a lot about a person's life: a fact which historians like to take advantage of. The...
Class beneath the Grass: Segregation within Cemeteries
Image: Monument of Michael Thomas Sadler (1780-1835), paid for by voluntary subscription. This statue stands next to the cemetery chapel in St George’s Field. By...
Open to all? Religious Freedom and the Leeds General Cemetery
By Imogen Gerard and Kelsie Root A mourner first inquiring into burying their deceased loved one in the 19th century would have been faced with...
Top Ten Ways to Die in Victorian Britain
Image reproduced with the permission of Special Collections, Leeds University Library. Item reference: MS 421/3/1/6, Burial Register. Access here. By Imogen Gerard and Kelsie Root If...
The Dead and the Living Interconnected on Campus
An Introduction to St George’s Field By Imogen Gerard and Kelsie Root Cemeteries play an integral role in remembering the dead. They are a space...