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The London Dead

Stories from our cemeteries, crypts and churchyards.

  • By David Bingham
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly 20 posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

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Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2022 27
2023 33
2024 8

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

The woman in white; Caroline Graves ( c. 1830-1895) Kensal Green Cemetery
As a young man Collins probably had his romantic experiences those "intimacies" to which the Dictionary of National Biography rather ambiguously refers. But when he was thirty-five and seemingly a confirmed bachelor, he formed an …
On , by David Bingham, 813 words
'Who hath no wife, he is no cuckold'; George Hill (1802-1864) Kensal Green Cemetery
Was George Hill as dull as his epitaph suggests? It is not unusual for memorial inscriptions to mention the grave occupant’s occupation but very few are as exclusively focused on career achievements as George’s. “For …
On , by David Bingham, 1,903 words
Death at the Zoo; murder, suicide and drunken accidents in the first 75 years of London's Zoological Gardens
Children of all ages will be Interested in the chatty and pleasant account of "Half Holidays at the Zoo," issued from the Westminster Gazette office. It is illustrated by a large number of capital photographs …
On , by David Bingham, 3,218 words