Death, in two parts. Another post in our Royal Funeral series, but this time with a brief interlude from one of Britain's most kingly-non-kings. Yes, it's Oliver Cromwell! Read it here: hammonda.substack.com/p/15-royal-f... & don't forget to subscribe, so the posts go straight to your email!

Our new post, "#1 Royal Funerals Series: Charles I", is now live! You can read it here: hammonda.substack.com/p/1-royal-fu...

Tugging further on this fascinating historical thread... This painting shows Sir Harry Harper with a favourite horse, Furiband, and an unnamed groom, c. 1774: could this be a portrait of "Jockey Jack"? I certainly hope so! #18c

Our new “Royal Funerals” series begins in 1649, with the execution of Charles I. Whilst the moments that led up to this event are well known in the British psyche, instead we ask: what happened to Charles post-mortem? Explore this legacy in our post tomorrow! (c) Parliamentary Art Collection

🪦 Where are the dead? My latest post examines how the Victorian burial crisis led to sweeping reforms that moved the dead from churchyards to suburban cemeteries, and why we're facing the same challenges today. #skystorians #graves #death #substack

March 22, 1726. Ordinance from the Society of Saddlers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne... "No brother shall come into the meeting of the company in his night-gown, on pain to forfeit 1s". ❌ No pyjamas allowed! ❌

I launched a blog to post some of my musings that don't quite fit into my PhD thesis... Really excited to share stories from the North East and beyond on early modern graves and death culture!

Histories of death, dying and memorials? Yes, please! Subscribe to the blog today for weekly posts, straight to your e-mail. hammonda.substack.com?r=4xl2h4&utm...

Today we launched the North East Funerary Heritage Group at Newcastle Cathedral to explore, preserve & promote regional funerary heritage. Great panel & workshops mapped knowledge, skills & burial sites. Grateful to Anna Walsh, Ray Hayes & Myra Giesen. Visit: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/nefhg/

Have you signed up to attend the North East Funerary Heritage Group's launch event on the 23rd of July? You have until the 18th to do so! blogs.ncl.ac.uk/nefhg/2025/0... #heritage #monuments #graves #gravestones

What a scene of udder chaos! Milk maid melee in Soho, 1805. Never a dull moment when using the British Newspaper Archives for research! 🐄

Research Assistant/Associate (History) Newcastle University - School of History, Classics & Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNA537/r...

My little project. Up until the end of May!

🚨Internship alert!📷An exciting opportunity for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for EMCO this summer. The EMCO internship programme focuses on transcribing the letters written by Montagu to her friend, Elizabeth Carter.

Never a good day at the office when it collapses in on itself! #PhD

What a fantastic PhD project: "Phd Studentship : Early women solicitors in England and Wales 1919-1939 (Lady Cruickshank Studentship) Queen Mary University of London - Department of Law" www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM390/p...

Highly recommend this internship, having completed it last year!

Just about decompressed from #BSECS2025... Feeling lucky to have been on a panel with these guys and to have had some time to explore Oxford. Back in Newcastle now, researching more female coal mine owners, and more!