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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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 –...
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....
Laura King, University of Leeds Any good collaboration should be mutually beneficial – ‘which is a formal way of saying bloody lovely’. So said Ellie...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 was an RAF pilot in Bomber Command during the Second World War. He was killed in action after a raid on Turin...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...