London Cemeteries

Author : John Turpin
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445611317
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magnificent Seven written by John Turpin and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of seven Victorian London cemeteries - 'works of art', created as much for the living as they were for the dead.

Author : Gian Luca Amadei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000521516
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Cemeteries and the Suburbs of London written by Gian Luca Amadei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-19 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Victorian cemeteries were the direct result of the socio-cultural, economic and political context of the city, and were part of a unique transformation process that emerged in London at the time. The book shows how the re-ordering of the city’s burial spaces, along with the principles of health and hygiene, were directly associated with liberal capital investments, which had consequences in the spatial arrangement of London. Victorian cemeteries, in particular, were not only a solution for overcrowded graveyards, they also acted as urban generators in the formation London’s suburbs in the nineteenth century. Beginning with an analysis of the conditions that triggered the introduction of the early Victorian cemeteries in London, this book investigates their spatial arrangement, aesthetics and functions. These developments are illustrated through the study of three private Victorian burial sites: Kensal Green Cemetery, Highgate Cemetery and Brookwood Cemetery. The book is aimed at students and researchers of London history, planning and environment, and Victorian and death culture studies.

Author : Robert Bard
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445661128
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London's Hidden Burial Grounds written by Robert Bard and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the dark secrets of London's lost and forgotten burial places.

Author : Hugh Meller
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752496905
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Cemeteries written by Hugh Meller and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Cemeteries is a comprehensive guide to all 126 cemeteries within Greater London. Listed alphabetically and with a map to help locate them, for each cemetery it includes the address, the date of foundation, the owner, the size, a note on its history, development, and current state, and the names, dates, and major achievements of any noteworthy people buried there. There are also chapters on the origins of London's cemeteries and cemetery history, planning, archicecture, and epitaphs. Illustrated throughout with both modern photographs and a wide range of rarely seen archive images, it is an essential source of information for anyone interested in London's social and architectural history, as well as biographical and genealogical researchers.

Author : Darren Beach
Publisher : MetroBooks
ISBN 13 : 9781902910635
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London's Cemeteries written by Darren Beach and published by MetroBooks. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh Meller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Cemeteries written by Hugh Meller and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is divided into two parts; Part One records the origins of London's cemeteries and their rich variety of buildings, monuments, epitaphs, flora and fauna, and includes introductory chapters on cemetery history, planning, and architecture, epitaphs and natural history; Part Two features a gazetteer which describes in detail over 200 cemeteries in Greater London together with short biographies of the celebrated people buried in them." "The callous neglect of many cemeteries today is reviewed and a new chapter discusses the valiant efforts made by local groups to halt the vandalism. There are two indexes, one listing over 2000 names of the dead mentioned in the gazetteer, and a secondary index of the architects, landscapers and sculptors whose work is represented in the cemeteries. The text is illustrated throughout with over 100 photographs." "London Cemeteries is an important source for biographical and geological research and a compendium of material for the architectural historian. Geologists, genealogists, historians, students of architecture and sculpture, social and local historians will also find much of interest, whilst a chapter for ecologists provides more detail on these unique wild plots in Central London."--Jacket.

Author : Mrs. Basil Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The London Burial Grounds written by Mrs. Basil Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catharine Arnold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847394930
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Necropolis written by Catharine Arnold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement -- including more recent trends to displays of collective grief and the cult of mourning, such as that surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales -- NECROPOLIS: LONDON AND ITS DEAD offers a vivid historical narrative of this great city's attitude to going the way of all flesh. As layer upon layer of London soil reveals burials from pre-historic and medieval times, the city is revealed as one giant grave, filled with the remains of previous eras -- pagan, Roman, medieval, Victorian. This fascinating blend of archaeology, architecture and anecdote includes such phenomena as the rise of the undertaking trade and the pageantry of state funerals; public executions and bodysnatching. Ghoulishly entertaining and full of fascinating nuggets of information, Necropolis leaves no headstone unturned in its exploration of our changing attitudes to the deceased among us. Both anecdotal history and cultural commentary, Necropolis will take its place alongside classics of the city such as Peter Ackroyd's LONDON.

Author : Celia Heritage
Publisher : Pen and Sword Family History
ISBN 13 : 1526702398
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cemeteries and Graveyards written by Celia Heritage and published by Pen and Sword Family History. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and fascinating guide from genealogist and historian Celia Heritage will prove indispensable for both local and family historians. A wide-ranging examination of historical and archaeological findings means that the book will also appeal to anyone with an interest in death and burial. Celia throws light on changing social attitudes to death and burial from pre-historic times to the modern day, investigates the origins and evolution of cemeteries and graveyards, and discusses the many different types of graves and memorials as well as looking at how memorial designs have changed. One chapter takes an in-depth look at the origins of the parish churchyard, while another looks at graveyards associated with nonconformist churches and institutions, including workhouses, asylums, hospitals and gaols. Celia details a wide range of online and offline sources that will help locate burials and memorials, also offering vital advice regarding good research practice. There is plenty of detail about less well-known genealogy sources such as records relating to re-interment, undertakers’ and stonemasons’ records, together with better known sources such as burial registers and memorial inscriptions. Throughout, there is a wide range of hands-on case studies which bring the subject to life and put it right into the hands of the researcher. This is far more than just genealogy, and Celia portrays this fascinating subject from the view of both historian and archaeologist.

Author : Jeroen Geurst
Publisher : 010 Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9064507155
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens written by Jeroen Geurst and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) designed 140 cemeteries in the countryside of Flanders and Northern France for soldiers killed in the First World War. The cemeteries can be regarded as an imprint, as it were, of the former battlefront on the map of Europe. All are designed to principles established beforehand, including uniform gravestones, a large Stone of Remembrance and a large cross. Yet the difference in size, alignment and provenance make them all unique variations on the themes in question. The most memorable aspects are their meticulously chosen position in the landscape, the varied selection of trees and other greenery and the architecture of the entrance and shelter buildings. This illustrated book charts the history of the designs and exposes the underlying principle of order and variation in the architecture in an exhaustive landscape-architectural analysis. All 140 cemeteries are fully documented with references to the places where they are to be found.