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This post continues our series from students on ‘Death, Dying and the Dead’, an MA history module at the University of Leeds. This post, by Rebecca Illidge,...
This post continues our series from students on ‘Death, Dying and the Dead’, an MA history module at the University of Leeds. This post, by Jennifer Speakman,...
This post continues our series from students on ‘Death, Dying and the Dead’, an MA history module at the University of Leeds. This post, by Harriet Lloyd,...
This post is the first in our 2022 series from students on ‘Death, Dying and the Dead’, an MA history module at the University of Leeds. This...
This post continues our series from students on ‘Death, Dying and the Dead’, an MA history module at the University of Leeds. This post, by Rónán Cowley,...
This post continues our series from students on ‘Death, Dying and the Dead’, an MA history module at the University of Leeds. This post, by Ben...
Content warning: the following post contains description of the inhumane killing and burial practices at the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, as part of the Holocaust. This...
Content warning: this piece focuses on anti-Black racism, police brutality, and murder. This post continues our series from students on ‘Death, Dying and the Dead’, an...
This post continues our series from students on ‘Death, Dying and the Dead', an MA history module at the University of Leeds. This post, by Liam...
The first of a series of guest posts from students on 'Death, Dying and the Dead', an MA history module at the University of Leeds....
What does it mean to be in a 'good place' to die? We might immediately think of where a death takes place, and where we...
The first of two guest posts from Sarah Jones of Full Circle Funerals, this piece explores the impact of the Covid pandemic on grieving, mourning and...
Writing about the dead is a compelling way to remember. Capturing a person’s character, their likes and dislikes, their stories and memories on paper –...
This is the first post after a loooong time. Parental leave and then a pandemic don't lead to blogging it seems. But here's a new...
Our final post in our series of blog posts from MA students turns our attention to another pioneering woman, Violet Van der Elst, in this piece from...
This week’s post turns our attention to a pioneer in changing medical treatment for the dying, Cicely Saunders, in Ruby's contribution to our series of...
This week's post focuses on death and grief in the Second World War, in Jake's contribution to our series of blog posts from MA students. ...
This week, we continue the focus on spiritualism, in our series of blog posts from MA students with this contribution from Yulia. By Yulia Volkovaya The...
Our series of blog posts from MA students continues with a turn to spiritualism, through a blog post by Megan. By Megan Schofield, MA Student, University...
Our series of blog posts from MA students continues to focus on the material culture of remembrance with a post from Jessica, on AIDS memorial quilts....
Continuing our series of posts from students on module entitled ‘Death, Dying and the Dead in Twentieth-Century Britain’, Claire writes the use of poetry in...
Continuing our series of posts from students on module entitled ‘Death, Dying and the Dead in Twentieth-Century Britain’, Susy writes about her own family history,...
As part of a module entitled ‘Death, Dying and the Dead in Twentieth-Century Britain’, some of my MA students have written blog posts about different...
Laura King, University of Leeds Keeping items that have been worn or kept close to the person in question is a common form of remembrance....
After something of an unintended blogging hiatus - the end of project funding and being back into teaching is to blame - we've had good...
On World Aids Day, 1st December 2018, we hosted an event to think about remembrance of those affected by the disease. We were delighted to welcome Professor Matt...
‘Your generosity can change lives’, promises the Red Cross, as its website suggests the reader ‘Leave a gift in your will’. Up until last week,...
Laura King, University of Leeds Any good collaboration should be mutually beneficial – ‘which is a formal way of saying bloody lovely’. So said Ellie...
Jessica Hammett (University of Leeds) with Ellie Harrison (The Grief Series) This blog post is about how we care for our participants and how we...
A guest blog from Patrick Bourne, with thanks to the Leeds Jewish Representative Council, the United Hebrew Congregation, Leeds and the Beth Hamidrash Hagadol Synagogue...
Guest post by Katie McClymont, University of the West of England and Co-Investigator on the Deathscapes and Diversity project Many of my colleagues were either...
A guest blog from Carolyn Huston, a member of our family historians group My garden here in Leeds is the place that I spend a...
Laura King, University of Leeds How can we best communicate and share our research? As academic historians, our writing is always going to be crucial....
Jessica Hammett, University of Leeds It's been just over a month since we got back from the Journey with Absent Friends – a month long...
Following our workshop on collaboration - between family historians, academic historians, archivists, librarians and many others - on Saturday 14 July, one of our speakers, Mike...
A guest blog by David Selway (Cardiff University) David gave a talk on his research as part of the events programme associated with our 'Remembrance' exhibition at...
A guest post from Satwant Rait, with thanks to the Sikh Elders Service for their contributions to discussions on Sikh remembrance There is no Sikh religious...
We know that the smell and taste of a slice of gingerbread, a tangy curry, or a sip of homebrew can take us back to...
During June, the ‘Living with Dying’ project are going on a Journey with Absent Friends with artist Ellie Harrison and ‘Team Grief’. In an ordinary, domestic...
Laura King, University of Leeds What can family history tell us about how we remember? As we’ve worked with family historians over the past year,...
A guest blog from Amanda Reed My name’s Amanda Reed – my maiden name is Cunningham. I was born in 1964 in the Armley area of...
A guest blog from Janet Coles My maternal grandmother, Emily Maria Gaskin, was born in 1884 in London and died in York in 1956. She...
Our exhibition Remembrance will open at Abbey House Museum on Saturday 3 March. The exhibition includes objects which have been used to remember loved ones since...
A guest blog from Janet Coles The silver vesta case belonged to my maternal grandmother, Emily Maria Gaskin, who was born in London in 1884 and died in York in 1956. Even sixty years later it reminds me...
Laura King, University of Leeds Part of the Living with Dying project has involved working with a lovely group of family historians. They’ve been researching...
The case of Suzie Lee and her family Laura King, University of Leeds The objects we own and keep can play a really significant role...
A Guest Blog from Maureen Jessop 'What's tha doing round there?' came the voice from the worn brown leather chair. This was a question my brothers...
A Guest Blog from Marie Songhurst This writing case belonged to my mother - Ethel Mary Tee (Mayhew). I believe the writing case was a...
The case of the Lupton Family of Leeds Laura King, University of Leeds Across different cultures, in different places and different times, objects of various...
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...