arent these cheeky chappies so wonderful?

Bristol has a graveyard for failed corporations @cemeteryclub.bsky.social

We remember them today. This is Y Ravine cemetery in Beaumont-Hamel. Only a third of the men buried here were identified, as many were not reclaimed from the Somme until long after the fighting had ceased. Heroes, every one of them.

Had a lovely time learnIng about the fascinating inhabitants of Tower Hamlets Cemetary!

A visit to Tower Hamlets with @cemeteryclub.bsky.social this weekend leads me to reading 'Recollections of the Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants', written by fearless Victorian explorer Lucy Sherrard Atkinson.

The tomb of Nothus, a slave who was a copyist and secretary. 1st C. AD, at the Museo Nazionale Romano #Rome #TombstoneTuesday #AncientBluesky #history #EpigraphyTuesday #photography #photo #foto #bw #bnw #ClassicMono #art #artyear

Tomorrow evening I’ll be delving into some medical history and sharing some grisly tales of body snatchers in my suitably themed Halloween walk around the City of London. Pub after! Grab yourself a ticket! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/boneyards-...

This is INCREDIBLE. The Bearded Vulture has multigenerational nests that last for hundreds of years, built in very secluded places — and they’re FULL OF ANTHROPOGENIC ARTIFACTS.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 4 - Languages Nudgoo Shah is buried in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 15, Section 11, Grave 17.

Think carefully as to whether or not that tired old gravestone needs a tidy up… you may be poking a hornets nest. Today’s blog is here! 🎃 cemeteryclub.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/t...

I remember having a chat with volunteer at Kilcrumper (Fermoy) and he had limits as to what could be done - substantially limited to vegetation cut back I did thing it was a bit harsh for a small group interested in maintaining an old cemetery but after that article......

Think carefully as to whether or not that tired old gravestone needs a tidy up… you may be poking a hornets nest. Today’s blog is here! 🎃 cemeteryclub.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/t...

Historians everywhere go ‘what the hell are you talking about?’

Alfred Ball. Hull, 1864 - East London, 1926. Gosh Manor Park Cemetery is beautiful! It's a perfect sunny day and there's gospel coming from somewhere near, which helps. I cleaned some empty old bottles off of Alec, though. Alf is in a prime spot near the central chapel.

Any fans of #brutalist architecture? A big chunky concrete tomb here with owls representing wisdom. This thing is huge and was built in the 1920s. No idea who Dominico Guido was, who lies inside this tomb in a Roman style sarcophagus with his wife Consicilia.

Want to learn more about the grisly goings on of the body snatching trade? Discover more about medical studies in 19th city London? Learn about how public execution influenced art & anatomy? Boneyards & Bodysnatchers! Weds 15th and 22nd of October! (Pub after) www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/cemetery-c...

Culprits found - The Limerick Society of London. Astonishing. The meant well, it wasn’t done with malice, but Christ alive. NEVER restore a grave unless you know what you’re doing - and get permission.

Why would anyone do this? 🎨

Why would anyone do this? 🎨

Death Masks! Specifically, Napoleon’s! cemeteryclub.wordpress.com/2022/06/30/s...

I didn’t know Wolfenden’s son was gay. That makes this document even more remarkable

*sigh* No, that’s just the effect of several centuries of rain through an iron grate. Nobody was wasting precious oil during a siege. they were throwing piss

Want to learn more about the grisly goings on of the body snatching trade? Discover more about medical studies in 19th city London? Learn about how public execution influenced art & anatomy? Boneyards & Bodysnatchers! Weds 15th and 22nd of October! (Pub after) www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/cemetery-c...

When you visit a grave in a historic cemetery…when do you think the last mourner visited? And what did the grave look like when it was new? cemeteryclub.wordpress.com/2023/01/12/t...

Loved the one I went on. Definitely one to make you appreciate People Museums.

Halloween 2025 tours now LIVE! Come and see London’s best cemetery tour in London’s best cemstery this spooky season! Leave the world of the living behind! 👻 💀 🎃 25th, 30th, 31st October & 1st November, 6:30 and 8:30pm each night! www.tickettailor.com/events/thefr...

It’s amazing to think there are roughly 300 people in this photo. That lovely pink granite headstone has a woman beneath it who insisted on a full-on Victorian funeral in 1936. Honestly, never mind Highgate - Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is the best of the lot.

Studio for Sale - a beautiful house in Hampstead, where art that influenced children’s fashion was created! #history cemeteryclub.wordpress.com/2024/02/12/s...

I’ve found LOADS.

What a peculiar angle to take on this terrible subject. We’re meant to feel sorry for Boyle? Dear me. His words have inflicted harm on a community that didn’t ask for the fight and then he has the gall to cry ‘wolf’ when it all heats up.

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription.

The fact I’ve had to put a reminder of my FindAGrave account that users do not own the lives of the graves they create profiles for is wild.

What a quote. And yes, I agree.

Yesterday I went on a tour of Tower Hamlets Cemetery with @cemeteryclub.bsky.social . He introduced us to a number of people, including James Nelson who sailed on HMS Investigator to try to find the Franklin expedition. I stupidly forgot to take a photo! @finger-post.blog

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The utterly wonderful ‘Chomper’, a bronze 3D scan and cast of a juvenile T-Rex on display in Berkeley Square. His actual bones are on sale for $20million. 🦖 🦴 #art

In London St Barts is THE ONE for this.

Preorder now!! Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025. Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Sigh. I was hoping a book pitch I’d been working on for a while would be picked up, but unfortunately it wasn’t to be. I still think there’s mileage in Cemetery Club, the book, but for now I’ll have to be content with my first born. Any publishers, drop me a DM if you’re interested.

🥊🚴🏽‍♂️ NEW BLOG - the last for a while 🚴🏽‍♂️🥊 In researching the story of a boxer, I accidentally stumbled across one of the first, if not THE, first person of colour to compete in British professional cycling races (we - @cycologies.com and I - think!): grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/06/02/p...

Watching from the sidelines as this has unfurled has been awful. Please support @sachacoward.bsky.social and other affected Unbound authors, who are owed money for the writing.

This same post on Threads is churning up some of the most despicable transphobia, that’s already shaking my questionable interest in social media today. Grim. Let people be.

Danielle died in 2019, after suffering from depression and experiencing transphobia online. Her family chose not to remember her by using her preferred name, so supporters fashioned a correction with a trans flag. 📍 Seafield Cemetery, Edinburgh🏳️‍⚧️

The Sarcophagus of the Spouses, one of the most iconic works of Etruscan art, is undergoing restoration — and visitors can watch the process live! Τhe terracotta masterpiece from the 6th c. BC, is hosted in the National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia in Rome www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/05...

Happy 185th birthday to Abney Park Cemetery! Part cemetery, part arboretum, it was the ‘Campo Santo of dissenters’, inheriting the title from Bunhill Fields: it would spawn ‘children’ in the form of Chingford Mount, Greenford and Hendon Park Cemeteries. 📸: Rob Hakiman: 1868 to 2016.

That was disgustingly close. And it shouldn’t have been. Vile.

Poor Portugal. Following that.

Here we go! My favourite! 🇲🇹 🇲🇹 #eurovision 🐆

The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision

Here we go! It shouldn’t work musically, but somehow it does. 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮. (One of my top 3) #Eurovision