An event to mark World Aids Day 2018
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...
Remembrance Exhibition
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Reflecting on Remembrance
‘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,...
Jewish Remembrance in Leeds
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...
Deathscapes and Diversity: Planning for Death and Remembrance in Multicultural England and Wales
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...
Death Underground: Memories of Mining Accidents
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...
Sikh Mourning
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...
Ways of Remembering My Relatives
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...
Remembrance: Individual and Unique Objects
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...
My Grandmother’s Silver Vesta Case
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...
My Mother's Writing Case
A Guest Blog from Marie Songhurst This writing case belonged to my mother - Ethel Mary Tee (Mayhew). I believe the writing case was a...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...