The London Dead
Whatever happened to the heroes? Monuments to the war dead in St Paul's Cathedral
Tempus fugit; Sally Mann 'What Remains' (Bulfinch Press, 2003, out of print) & 'Hold Still; A Memoir with Photographs' (Penguin Modern Classics, 2024 £14.99)
The Tomb of General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) Riverside Drive, New York
Scenes of Clerical Life; the remarkable story of the Rev. Basil Claude Hudson Andrews (1867-1963? final resting place unknown)
Glasgow Necropolis
The Messalina of the Suburbs; Edith Jessie Thompson (1893-1923) City of London Cemetery
More Die of Heartbreak; Baron Farkas Kemény. (1797–1852) Kensal Green Cemetery
The Headhunter in the the Haymarket; Horatio Gordon Robley (1840-1930) Streatham Park Cemetery
The three burials of Captain Elton; Erle Godfrey Elton (1869-1899) Kensal Green Cemetery
The Campo Santo of East London; St Patrick's Catholic Cemetery, Leyton
The woman in white; Caroline Graves ( c. 1830-1895) Kensal Green Cemetery
'Who hath no wife, he is no cuckold'; George Hill (1802-1864) Kensal Green Cemetery
Death at the Zoo; murder, suicide and drunken accidents in the first 75 years of London's Zoological Gardens
The Mysterious Barclay Grave; Elizabeth Anne Barclay (1834-1895) Kensal Green Cemetery
When figures from the past stand tall; Ian Curtis (1956-1980) Macclesfield Cemetery & Crematorium
A Winter Afternoon in Brompton Cemetery; 10 January 2024
Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way; Joseph Bonomi (1796-1878), Brompton Cemetery
The sad abode of the dead; Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
"Shakespeare never went to Venice, Homer never went to Troy, Dante never went to Hell"; Christopher Logue (1926-2011) Kensal Green Cemetery
Her grave is dug; Stéphane Mallarmé and Harriet Smyth (1838 -1859) Kensal Green Cemetery
This extravagant journey: Steve Peregrin Took (1949-1980) Kensal Green Cemetery
Not seeing 'Death' in Toronto; Mount Pleasant Cemetery
I am NOT dead! Thank God, I was never in better health; John Ternouth (1796-1848) Kensal Green Cemetery
Père Lachaise without the visitors; Zadie Smith on Kensal Green Cemetery and the search for Eliza Touchet
The Mysterious Thea Canonero Altieri (1910-2006) Kensal Green Cemetery