Tag: Things To Do

• This Is Halloween

  

  Ooooh GAWD it’s my Christmas! This week sees all manner of deathly symbols and imagery invade supermarkets, schools and offices. Whilst like any other festival, its commercialisation does seem to have detracted from its origin as Samhain, a time indicating the start of the darker part of the year and the time where the veil…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  October 28, 2019

  Advertisement, Cemeteries, Family, Food, History, London, Performance, Respect, Tour Guiding, Tours, Visits

  Celebration, Day of the Dead, Egypt, Escape Rooms, Events, Exhibitions, Halloween, London, Mummy, Seminars, Things To Do, tomb, Tpurs

• Finding Mr. Moonlight

  

  There’s a cemetery on a common that practically no-one knows is there. It’s not listed on The London Borough of Richmond’s Cemeteries page (it should be) and the state it’s in now is a stark contrast as to how well it was maintained a century ago. I first found out about the cemetery from a…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  September 12, 2019

  art, Biography, Family, History, London, Rural, Tours

  Artist, Barnes, Barnes School, Castlenau, Cemetery, Edward Williams, Explore, family, Heritage, Moonlight, Painter, Painting, Richmond, Royal Academy, Things To Do, tours, Woodland

• The Roman Dead

  It all began in Southwark. The remarkable discovery of a stone sarcophagus in Lant Street, Southwark last year spurred the Museum of London to collate forty years of work into one exhibition. How did Roman London commemorate death and what can we learn from what they’ve left behind? Exhibition curators Jackie Kiely, Rebecca Redfern and…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  May 25, 2018

  Advertisement, History, London, People, Visits

  dead, Death, Exhibition, Museum of London, Roman, Sarcophagus, Southwark, Things To Do