Writing the dead: remembrance and the written word
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 –...
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Violet Van der Elst: On the Gallows
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...
The Woman Who Changed the Face of Death
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...
The Blitz: Firemen, stoicism, and deathscapes
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. ...
Possessing Her Audience: The Séances of Helen Duncan and the Power of the Female Medium
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...
The Rise of Spiritualism During the First World War: Raymond, Or Life and Death
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...
Exploring Counter Memorials: The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt
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....
Remembering Aberfan: Poetry, Death and the Landscape
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...
A Personality Preserved by Poetry
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,...
Violet Dix: A Life Lived and A Death Displayed
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...
‘The shape of his knees bulged in the cheap tweed’: clothes and textiles in remembrance
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....
Making the invisible visible – Day of the Dead, ofrendas and remembering in family life
Laura King, University of Leeds Any good collaboration should be mutually beneficial – ‘which is a formal way of saying bloody lovely’. So said Ellie...
My Garden of Memories
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...
If life (and death) really were a picnic: when history and art come together
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....
Family History and Academic History – and beyond!
Following our workshop on collaboration - between family historians, academic historians, archivists, librarians and many others - on Saturday 14 July, one of our speakers, Mike...
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...
Food, our memories and bringing the dead back to life
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...
Journey with Absent Friends
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...
Working with family historians – remembering and forgetting our ancestors
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,...
Family history and academic history – the value of collaboration
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...
When memories live in things: the story of a lost caravan
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...
When memories live in things: remembering the dead through objects
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...