Crows truly are gorgeous aren’t they.

Lunch with Crowley 🐦‍⬛

Brought Crowley some scraps from last nights dinner (Roast chicken. he was so cute today

St Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, London, Uk.

Allerseelenetag Hedwigskirchhof / All Souls’ Day, Franz Skarbina, 1896 Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin #TheVIctorianBookoftheDead #AllSoulsDay #AllSouls

Interior of the #monument to the fallen in #WWI in Narni, Italy (1927). Their names are inscribed in red. #memorial #art #funeraryart #funeraryarchitecture #1GM #warmemorial #lestweforget #photography #warhistory

Good day all.

#31daysofgraves Day 31 Memento mori Holy Trinity Church, Old Bewick, Northumberland.

For the 1st day of all hallows tide & last day of #31DaysOfGraves here is my final October grave Beautifully symbolic graveyard sculpture in St Cuthbert's Kirkyard, Edinburgh with #MementoMori & 'vive memor leti' on either side of doorway, reminding us that life is finite #Halloween #skystorians

#31daysofgraves day 31 Memento Mori. Sadly the headstones at Dunblane Cathedral graveyard, with memento mori, are now mostly worn away. These images are all from Dunblane Museum. Staff & volunteers there are helping with a new graveyard audio tour, hopefully out soon. 🤞 Cheeky wee plug! 😀

#31DaysOfGraves Day 31: Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die"); symbols or tropes acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death.The most common motif is a skull, but other motifs include a coffin, hourglass or wilting flowers to signify the impermanence of life. #Edinburgh

The last day of #31DaysOfGraves 31: memento mori. These symbols seem to be very common here in Scotland. Here are just a few from Stirling and Northumberland. Thanks so much for sharing all your pictures. I've really enjoyed seeing them. Thanks too to @annaandthedead.bsky.social for organising! 🎃👻🎃👻

#31daysofgraves is over now what else am I supposed to do now 😩🤣

Day 31 of #31DaysOfGraves - #MementoMori We're ending this year's annual celebration of the art and heritage of grave memorials with this absolutely stunning 18thC stone from Garvald, East Lothian Thanks to @annaandthedead.bsky.social for curating the themes again this year. Happy Halloween all! 🎃

Day 31: Momento Mori Happy Halloween 🎃 #31daysofgraves

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 is #Colour It has to be this fabulous cast iron monument by the Sun Foundry to commemorate the Mackenzie family in the Upsilon compartment of the #Glasgow #Necropolis It has been restored recently, and I think it looks great! #Gothic #DarkTourist #Cemetery #Taphophile

Day 30: Colour I am a huge green moss and blue patina enjoyer. York cemetery, North Yorkshire, UK. #31daysofgraves

#31DaysOfGraves - Day #30 Colour The municipal cemetery in Landau-in-der-Pfalz is also home to the historical Jewish Cemetery. The oldest stones are made from the local red sandstone which, unfortunately, isn't the most durable material for a gravestone. But there's a quiet beauty to them...

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 Colour. Changing colours and crunchy leaves make for a perfect Autumn walk in Warriston. #Edinburgh #Autumn #WarristonCemetery

Finding an accused - and executed witch in my ancestral line on my father’s side wasn’t on my genealogy bingo card but exciting find nonetheless.

#31DaysOfGraves - Occupation Wife, widow, daughter, mother; women are often memorialised in terms of their relationships. Most tragically as the wife and would-be mother, who perished in childbirth. This example seen in St Edmund's Hall Library, housed in the C12th church of St Peter-in-the-East.

My friend has a family heirloom mourning locket, made of black Whitby jet. On the inside, is braided hair. A gorgeous art form which I seriously hope comes back into fashion one day.

#31DaysofGraves Day 29: Occupation. One of my favourite things in Warriston is the multitude of interesting (& some now obselete) occupations listed on stones. If you would like to see more & are on Facebook, we have a photo album of about 180 different professions. www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...

I'm delighted to be presenting on mourning crape as a token of death at the Symbols of Mortality online conference in February 2026. And I'm honored to be among such an absolutely stellar roster of death scholars. Take a look. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symbols-of... #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Good day all. 📷 Autumn 2022 at Lister Lane Cemetery.

The final resting place of former Halifax watchmaker & jeweller Adam Otty, who died on this day in 1887, at ther age of 55. Buried with both wives. First wife Mary (née Greenwood) died in 1857. Adam then married widow Mary Brierley (née Eastwood) in 1868. Mary no. 2 predeceased him by 20 months.

Day 29: Occupation Joseph Bonomi (1796–1878) sculptor, traveller, and pioneer Egyptologist. #31daysofgraves

My latest blog post has published. It’s about understanding what you find when visiting a cemetery where your ancestors are buried. englishancestors.blog/2025/09/23/a...

My latest blogpost has just published. It's aimed at Intermediate level family history researchers or people moving on from Beginners to Intermediate, and looks at how we can layer up and cross reference information from burial records. englishancestors.blog/2025/10/24/g...

Day 28: Column Kensal Green Cemetery, London #31daysofgraves

No skull is complete without a jaunty little mustache. gravestone for Dorothy Sprague (d.1727) Malden, Massachusetts (I'm not 100% sure of the carver, but I think it may be a Foster family stone.)

Day 27: Tree York Cemetery, North Yorkshire, UK. #31daysofgraves

Day 26: Figure James Starley, father of the British bicycle industry. A prominent figure indeed. More in the alt text! London Road Cemetery, Coventry, Uk. #31daysofgraves

Day25: Graveside Ornament. Not an ornament, exactly, but I don’t know what it is about little benches placed graveside. Big feelings when I see them. Kensal Green cemetery, London, Uk. #31daysofgraves

Day 24: Unique animal. Highgate cemetery, London, UK. #31daysofgraves

Day 23: Cross Brompton cemetery, London, Uk.

I’m very behind with #31daysofgraves, but alas, unfortunately month end workload has me spent ! So do bare with me, I will be playing catch up again 🙃

An interesting little watch about this lost treasure a metal detectorist found. Imagine digging this up !

Day 21, Bronze: The beautiful and tragic monument of auronauts Joseph Croce-Spinelli and Théodore Sivel, lying side by side holding hands. They died in their hot air balloon in 1875 at 28,000 feet from lack of oxygen, and are buried together, recognized as 'martyrs to science'. #31DaysofGraves

#31DaysofGraves Day 23: Cross. Warriston is filled with crosses so I thought I'd focus specifically on Celtic ones. The Celtic cross is a form of ringed cross, a Christian cross featuring a nimbus or ring, that emerged in Ireland and Britain in the Early Middle Ages. #Edinburgh #CelticCross

#31DaysofGraves Day 22: Landscape. Warriston Cemetery opened in Edinburgh in 1843. Now occupying 20 acres of lush, rolling green space, it was the first garden cemetery in Edinburgh, and drew comparisons to Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. #Edinburgh #GardenCemetery #GreenSpace

#31DaysOfGraves Tag / Day 22: Landschaft / Landscape Otani Friedhof Kyoto/Otani Cemetery, Kyoto

• Walking on the quiet hill • #31DaysOfGraves 22 • Landscape Campo Santo, ville de Gand Bonne nuit #ClassicMono youtu.be/MafAZeag1_0?...

#31daysofgraves • Landscape 🌄 📍St Materiana's Church • Tintagel ⛪️ #Cornwall #History

Crowley came by for his autumn photoshoot! (And some of my lunch)

Day 22: Landscape* *Technically portrait but, I digress. You can see the sea ! San Amaro Cemetery in A Coruña, Spain. #31daysofgraves

Day 21: Bronze St Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green. #31daysofgraves

#31Daysofgraves Tag 21: Bronze Eine trauernde Bronzestatue auf dem Alten Friedhof Harburg.

#31daysofgraves 21. Bronze 🥉 Sel Mausoleum, by Leonardo Rucabado Gómez, architect, & Francisco Cossío Molina, sculptor (1909) — Ballena Cemetery, Castro Urdiales (Cantabria) 🇪🇸 I think today pics need no words ❤️‍🔥 but just in case 👉 bit.ly/ballena-sel (sorry, only in Spanish 🙏)