Tag: Italy

• The Greatest Library of Them All

  

  Libraries are a world you can get lost in. Earlier this week I paid a visit to my local cemetery, where I filmed a video about John Harris – the subject of one of my sixty second videos on Twitter. He’s buried in Queen’s Road Cemetery, Croydon. I explored his legacy to both the British…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  April 17, 2020

  Biography, books, History, London, Museum, Photography, Study

  Antony Panizzi, books, British Museum, history, Independence, Italian, Italy, library, Reading Room, Resistance, Ugo Foscolo

• The Tomb of Santa Claus

  

  “Only the very young or very unsophisticated maintain the surviving faith in the legend of Santa Claus.” So was written in the Derry Journal on Friday 22nd December 1933. Santa Claus, as I’m sure everyone is aware, is a hybrid of different folklores and popularised by the iconic (and frankly, bloody annoying) advert Coca Cola trot…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  December 23, 2019

  christmas, History, Polar, Religion

  Basilica, christmas, County Kilkenny, Father Christmas, festive, Ho Ho Ho, Ireland, Italy, Jolly, Myra, Presents, Public History, Reindeer, Santa Claus, Seasons Greetings, Turkey, Venice, Yuletide

• A Jaunt to the London Necropolis

  

  ‘So. Sheldon. The Monuments and Mausolea Trust are having their AGM at Brookwood Cemetery. You want in?’ How could I, intrepid cemetery enthusiast and curator of Cemetery Club, say no? Brookwood is one of those cemeteries I’ve long been meaning to visit. Mike Fox of the Monuments and Mausoleums Trust in Waterloo kindly invited me to…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  November 26, 2018

  Biography, Cemeteries, History, London, Photography, Railway, Visits

  Actor, Architect, Ashes, brookwood, Cemetery, cricket, Glassware, Italy, London Necropolis, mausoleum, Railway, Surrey, Woking, Zaha Hadid