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The London Dead

Stories from our cemeteries, crypts and churchyards.

  • By David Bingham
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly two posts per month
  • First post on

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Mar 2022 2
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May 2022 2
Jun 2022 4
Jul 2022 4
Aug 2022 1
Sep 2022 4
Oct 2022 2
Nov 2022 4
Dec 2022 1
Jan 2023 4
Feb 2023 2
Mar 2023 3
Apr 2023 3
May 2023 4
Jun 2023 4
Jul 2023 1
Aug 2023 0
Sep 2023 4
Oct 2023 4
Nov 2023 3
Dec 2023 1
Jan 2024 0
Feb 2024 4
Mar 2024 2
Apr 2024 2
May 2024 0
Jun 2024 0
Jul 2024 0
Aug 2024 0
Sep 2024 0
Oct 2024 2
Nov 2024 1
Dec 2024 2

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Most recent posts

The Messalina of the Suburbs; Edith Jessie Thompson (1893-1923) City of London Cemetery
“Three soldiers of the Coldstream Guards were walking in Montgomery street. Onegavean opinion in which all concurred. It was the woman, they said; he showed himself a man afterwards.” James Joyce ‘Finnegans Wake’ At around …
On , by David Bingham, 2,963 words
Death from a Broken Heart; Baron Farkas Kemény. (1797–1852) Kensal Green Cemetery
'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle,Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article. Lord Byron. Don Juan, XI, st. 60 Byron’s sardonic couplet on the death of Keats was prompted by Leigh …
On , by David Bingham, 3,355 words
The Headhunter in the the Haymarket; Horatio Gordon Robley (1840-1930) Streatham Park Cemetery
The Wellcome Collection has a heavily annotated copy of this (in)famous photograph of Major General Horatio Gordon Robley seated before his collection of 33 mokomokai, Māori preserved heads. Its provenance is Stevens Auction Rooms formerly …
On , by David Bingham, 2,187 words