As the Remember Me Project winds down, the team looks back over three years of exploring aspects of remembrance and memorialisation, and ponder what the future holds. The Remember Me project is coming to a close after nearly 3 years of exploring the ways in which memorialisation has been practised in the past, is changing…
Category: Cemetery
Glasgow Necropolis: image and memory
Guest-blogger, artist and writer, Alan John Campbell, has developed a fascination with memorialisation. His work at Glasgow Necropolis has been compiled into a poignant photographic essay. The images compiled into this photographic essay each express a narrative that taken as a total will hopefully be interesting and meaningful. Examining these images suggests that one aspect…
The heart has a memory
As part of a Remember Me Conference Showcase Series, guest-blogger, Jasmine Brammer, from Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust in Melbourne, Australia, shares a deeply personal account of the importance of cemetery visits as acts of Remembrance. As someone facing a year of moments without my mother, I’m increasingly aware of the giant space that’s opened where…
The Most Holy and Undivided Trinity, Kingston upon Hull: Memorials in the Minster
Guest-blogger Jean Fenwick reflects on more than seven centuries of memorialisation in Hull Minster. The memorials of Holy Trinity church reflect over 700 years of worship history and the growth of the town and city of Kingston upon Hull. 1285 is often considered to be the initial establishment of a building on the present site….
A summer internship with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Guest-blogger, Jack Sibley shares his experience as a Centenary Intern with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. This summer I had the fantastic opportunity to move to France for three months in order take part in a new internship programme run by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Living in Arras, the site of a major British…
‘Regards from Hull’ – The texture of remembrance at home and abroad
This Remembrance Day weekend Remember Me Co-Investigator, Dr Nick Evans explores the varied texture of memory and the diversity of the forgotten. On Sunday at 11am Britons at home and in certain parts of the Commonwealth stand to pay homage to the millions of men, women and increasingly animals, who died during the First World…
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,…
Later Iron Age cremations: interregional practices, local peculiarities
During the Later Iron Age cremation was extremely popular. Guest-blogger Andy Lamb examines this practice. At certain times in European prehistory, new developments arose which were subsequently adopted and adapted across a wide area of the continent. One these was the decision to cremate the dead, which from the 3rd century BC became the preferred…
Red Army Soldiers’ Cemetery in Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Remember Me Research Affiliate, Dr Marcin Biernat, shares some photographs of the Red Army Cemetery in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. A few days ago I visited the cemetery of Red Army Soldiers in Bielsko-Biała, my hometown. I took a long walk around in the morning and I want to share some photos. The Soviet invasion of Poland…
Death in the East: an integrated approach to burial evidence for the Iron Age of eastern England
Guest-blogger Michael Legge, PhD student at Cardiff and Exeter Universities is shedding new light on Iron Age burial practices. The British Iron Age is a period with many mysteries. Despite years of research and excavation, much is still unknown about the period, and the people. Death in the Iron Age, is one avenue where the…
Coffin plates and monuments: comparing 19th century funerary items
During the 19th century inscriptions were used both within the grave and on above ground memorials. Guest-blogger Sarah Hoile, PhD candidate at UCL Institute of Archaeology, is examining the ways these different media were used. On June 18th 1828, John Cotton died in Devonshire Place in Marylebone, London, near Regent’s Park [1]. His body was…
In Search of the Somme
Remember Me Co-Investigator and photographer Associate Professor Liz Nicol takes us on a personal journey behind the lens. As a new project unfolds, where do you begin? Especially when you have vigorously avoided anything remotely connected the subject, and in this case the subject is World War One. This blog is a reflection of the…
Remember Me. The Changing Face of Memorialisation 