In Freetown Week guest-blogger Gladys Cole shares her experience of creating memorial wreaths for loved ones. Flowers for us Sierra Leoneans are a symbol of love, hope and sympathy. We remember our loved ones who have died and honour them by arranging beautiful natural flowers wreaths to lay on their graves. This is done on…
Month: October 2017
Memorialising James Taylor, ‘Father of the Ceylon Tea Enterprise’, in Scotland
Guest-blogger Angela McCarthy, Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago, looks at the memorialisation in Scotland of James Taylor, ‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’, during the 150th anniversary of Ceylon tea in 2017. In a previous blog, I outlined the death and gravestone of Scotsman James Taylor, ‘father of the…
Making Memorials: behind the scenes at a memorial masons workshop
Remember Me researchers Dr Nick Evans and Dr Yvonne Inall had an opportunity to join a tour of a memorial masons workshop in Hull as part of Heritage Open Days 2017. Stone memorials remain as enduring markers to the departed around the world. Seen as an everlasting memorial, the decisions about what kind of stone,…
Mont Ventoux: “There is no mountain too high” – The Tom Simpson Memorial
Guest-blogger, Prof Malcolm Golightley, reflects on the memorial to the famous British cyclist, Tom Simpson who died 50 years ago this year. Mont Ventoux is a huge mountain in the south of France. Known affectionately but with considerable fear as the ‘Géant de Provence’ it is reckoned to be the most difficult climb used by…
Remember Me. The Changing Face of Memorialisation 