Tag: Author

• It Begins!

  

  We’re very excited to announce our first tour of 2018! Me and Sam are planning on delivering a whole load of walks, talks and tales this year to bang the drum on how marvellous cemeteries, and the people buried within them, are. I am very pleased to announce our first tour of the year celebrates […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  February 16, 2018

  Family, History, London, People, Tour Guiding, Tours, Women

  Actress, Author, Cemetery, Dark Tourism, designer, Fortune Green, Hampstead, Illustrator, Tourism, Tourist Guide, Women, Writer

• The Life & Opinions of Laurence Sterne, Gentleman

  

  Laurence Sterne was a name I’d encountered before. I’d read his most prominent novel on a free to download app on my iPhone, and was rather confused by what I was reading. It was enjoyable: but it was written in a style that was clearly for readers of yesteryear.  As part of my tour-guide training, […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  January 30, 2014

  Biography, History, London, Religion

  Anatomists, Author, consumption, Laurence Sterne, St. George’s Hanover Square, Tristram Shandy

• The Mystery of Montague Fowler, Part Three

  Long-term readers of the blog will be familiar with a feature that chronicles my obsession with a historical man. For those of you who may be alien to our quest, I would recommend reading parts one and two to get a clearer idea of Ben and I’s fascination with a chap called Sir Montague Fowler, […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  September 16, 2013

  Family, History, Lost, Photography, Possessions, Religion

  All Hallows London Wall, Author, Bushey, Cemetery, Death, Google, Haydon Hall, Hertfordshire, Reverend, victorian

• The Mystery of Montague Fowler, Part Two

  For those of you who are new to the blog, a few weeks back I wrote of my discovery of an artefact belonging to a boy called Montague Fowler in a long forgotten chest in the old stables of a country mansion. The whole thing intrigued me.  Here in my hands was this beautifully written piece […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  June 20, 2013

  Family, Lost, Photography, Possessions, Religion

  Author, Cemetery, Chaplain, Copperplate, Death, Handwriting, Lost, Mystery, People, Reverend, victorian