Tag: taphophile

• Gruesome – Or History Made Graphic?

  

  Why go traipsing around a cemetery? Well, it’s no different from going to a museum or an art gallery. So when I come across historical accounts written by cemetery enthusiasts, I have to share their words as I would my own. The following article originally appeared in the Londonderry Sentinel on  Saturday 1st December, 1956. Its author…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  April 27, 2018

  History, London, opinion, Review

  Blondin, Brunel, Engineer, Graphic, gruesome, history, Karl Marx, Kensal Green Cemetery, Newspaper, taphophile, wilkie collins, Woman in White

• A Factfile for a Taphophile: Grizzly Victorian Fun Facts Part 1

  

  by Christina I learned a new word this week. My friend Patrick taught it to me. Taphophile means ‘someone who is interested in gravestones, funerals, epitaphs and cemeteries’ and I think that describes us here at Cemetery Club quite well. Sheldon doesn’t really like the term, preferring ‘Cemetery Enthusiast’ but I’m enjoying using the new…

  irismacro

  July 27, 2015

  History

  19th century, burials, Cemeteries, Death, facts, graveyards, taphophile, victorian, victorians