Inheritance Facts?
A guest blog from Paul Cave When I was a child, my favourite thing in the world was to draw. “I don’t know where you...
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A Visit to Common Farm
A guest blog from Sarah Sykes I always knew that my maternal grandfather, David Leslie Noble, was the son of a Nottinghamshire farmer, but didn’t...
Remembering the Dead
Laura King, University of Leeds What objects do you hold on to because they remind you of someone you’ve lost? Where do those memories of...
Día de los Muertos in Leeds
A guest blog from Laura Loyola-Hernández In the last two decades, Halloween marketing around the globe has appropriated Día de los muertos (Day of the Dead)....
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....
Arthur Louis Aaron: Public and Private Remembrance of a WWII Pilot
Arthur Louis Aaron was an RAF pilot in Bomber Command during the Second World War. He was killed in action after a raid on Turin...
Poor Harold
A guest blog from Maureen Jessop Harold Cooper was born in Leeds on 10 November 1920, the eldest child of Tom, a railway worker, and...
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...
My Grandad's Lost Regalia
A guest blog from Eric Songhurst Who was this fine imposing looking business man? Is this where my willingness to serve on committees in various...
The Senses and Spaces of Death, Dying and Remembering
A conference to explore historical and contemporary perspectives. Bringing together, artists, academics and professionals working in a range of services relating to end of life,...
Remembrance at Abbey House Museum
Frederic Forster’s Mourning Warehouse, Lower Briggate, Leeds, founded 1849. Photo c. 1870-1890, possibly taken by J Wormald. © Leeds Museums and Galleries. Guest blog from...
Investigating a Family Secret
Hunslet Feast, 1850. Leodis Photograph Archive. A guest blog from Carolyn Huston I try to be disciplined in my family tree research, but have a butterfly...
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...
Working Collaboratively with Family Historians
Since May we have been working with a group of Leeds based family historians on the 'living with dying' project. Some of them are already experts,...
On continuing bonds, new landscapes and not stepping in poo
In his book ‘A grief observed’ C.S Lewis wrote: "Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally...
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...
An introduction to Leeds Bereavement Forum
At first I thought that writing this blog might be a little daunting, as I only started as the new Development Worker at Leeds Bereavement...
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...
Living with Dying: Past, Present and Future
Leeds Bereavement Forum Annual Conference 2017 In June the project supported and participated in a fantastic event organised by Leeds Bereavement Forum, which brought together academic and artistic...
What can history tell us about dying, grief, bereavement and remembering?
Does the past matter? This research project is investigating the history of death, dying and the relationship between the living and the dead in twentieth-century...
Family History Resource List
Support Services in Leeds for Family Historians Sometimes when researching our family histories we come across things about our ancestors which we might find upsetting, or...