Tag: Islington

• Why Is There a Headstone in the Dickens Museum?

  

  Visitors to the Dickens Museum may be surprised to see a gravestone in the back garden. Of course it is perfectly legal to be buried in your own garden if you’re lucky enough to own one. But this headstone is a cenotaph: no bones lay beneath it. The actual person it commemorates has a fascinating…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  December 24, 2020

  christmas, History, London, Museum

  christmas, Dickens, Dickens Museum, Headstone, Holborn, Islington, Museum, Pickwick Papers, Public History, Robert Seymour

• Parliament’s Postie

  

  Imagine being at the heart of communication in one of the most important buildings in the world! It’s 1903 and in his private office in Buckingham Palace, King Edward VII sits in his chair, pouring over a list of names. Making notes beside each one, the roll of names before him has been given Royal…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  December 12, 2019

  Biography, History, London, Murder, Royal, Work

  Abney Park, Biography, Cemetery, Crippen, Election, Grave, Hackney, House of Commons, Islington, Lives, Parcel, Parliament, Politician, Postage, Postman Pat, Public History, Royal Mail, Stoke Newington

• Blake’s New Headstone

  

  Well this is something special! For years, fans of one of the nation’s greatest creative minds have had to make do with an approximate location of the great man’s final resting place. Thanks to long running efforts from a small band of his most ardent fans and the generation of £30,000 in fundraising, on Sunday…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  July 23, 2018

  Event, History, London, Memorial

  Cemetery, Event, Free, Islington, Old Street, Poet, Printmaker, Society, Soho, Unveiling, William Blake