Guest-blogger John Scotney reports on the work undertaken by the Friends of Hull General Cemetery, a small community group, to restore a local memorial to the victim of a tragic train crash, which spurred rail safety measures. At 11.30 on Saturday 11th February 2017, a damp and dismal day, a small group of members of…
Month: March 2017
Commemorating the Revelation of Mother of God in the Beskidy Mountains (Poland).
Remember Me Research Associate Dr Marcin Biernat shares a story that has been told in his family for generations. Once upon a time a ‘lady’ told a little girl that a church should be raised here, up in the mountains… The first revelations in this place date back to 25th July 1894 when a little…
Our Future Hope
In medieval times people were reminded of their mortality through creative works known as memento mori. Guest-blogger Professor David Crouch explores the example of Count Waleran of Meulan and Worcester. In April 1166 one of the greatest European aristocrats of his day, Count Waleran of Meulan and Worcester, died at the age of sixty-two as…
The Longest Goodbye – Remembering Hull’s Lost Fishermen
Guest-blogger Joan Venus-Evans shares a personal account of Hull’s Triple Trawler Tragedy and the ongoing need to memorialise and remember fishermen lost at sea. I was born in the front bedroom of one of the small two up two down terraced houses that huddled together off Hessle Road. My first memories are of waking up…
Death and Memorialisation in Hong Kong and New Zealand
Remember Me Principal Investigator, Emeritus Professor Margaret Holloway, recently travelled to Hong Kong and New Zealand. She reports on memorials she observed on her travels. In vain did I protest to neighbours and friends as I left home on 4 February that this trip was mainly work. It has truly been an incredibly intense but…
Story of My Grandad on Poland’s National Day of Remembrance of ‘Accursed Soldiers’
Guest-blogger Tomasz Glinski shares a remembrance of his grandfather and his family’s history. I remember vividly what it was like to play war as a ten-year-old Polish boy in the mid-90s, not that long after the fall of communism in Poland. I also remember that my grandma always asked me to hide all my plastic…
Remember Me. The Changing Face of Memorialisation 