Tag: Statue

• The Lions of London, Part 1

  

  A marker to the dead can take many forms. A simple slab. A towering obelisk. A niche in a wall. Or as a ruddy great lion. Lions in cemeteries – not actual lions, although wouldn’t that be something – exist in funerary sculpture and are almost as impressive as seeing the real thing. There are…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  August 12, 2021

  Animals, art, Cemeteries, History, London, People, Sport

  art, big cat, Boxing, Brompton, Cemetery, Chelsea, Gravesend, Iran, Lion, London, Sculptor, Sculpture, Statue, Woolwich

• Master-fully Done, Part 1

  

  The e-mail notification came through and I took a deep breath. My course mates and I had been badgering our lecturer for a week or so to get this information and finally, it had arrived. Navigating my way to the university’s submission portal; I clicked refresh and there it was. My first piece of submitted…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  December 9, 2019

  History, opinion, Study, Work

  Birkbeck, blog, Colonialism, Empire, Essay, Masters, Mature, Public Historian, Public History, Sculpture, Soap, Statue, Student, Twitterstorian, University, update

• If You Seek His Monument

  Celebrated author Charles Dickens stipulated that his legacy would be his books: yet a memorial was unveiled in Portsmouth in 2014 to celebrate his 202nd birthday. He stated in his will that ‘I conjure to my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial or testimonial whatsoever’. This has been…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  February 10, 2014

  churches, Heritage, History, London, Memorial

  1666, Charles Dickens, Dome, Great Fire of London, King Charles II, London, Portsmouth, Sir Christopher Wren, st paul’s cathedral, Statue