Tag: Westminster Abbey

• The Graves of English Poets

  

  Occasionally I find gems from the archives that were published years ago by my cemetery and graveyard-loving predecessors – and this particular one deserves to be seen by living eyes once more.  The following words originally appeared in ‘The Bizarre Notes and Queries in History, Folk-lore, Mathematics, Mysticism, Art, Science, Etc‘ that was published by…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  November 17, 2020

  Architecture, books, History, London, Poetry

  Archive, Byron, Dryden, George Eliot, Gulliver's Travels, Keats, London, Milton, Poet, Rome, Shakespeare, Sheffield, Shelley, Westminster Abbey

• Sarah & Anne

  

  To celebrate LGBT History month I’ve asked writers, historians and scientists to put their fingers to the keyboard and share interesting stories about queer people who now reside in our cemeteries and crematoriums. Our latest offering comes from Sacha Coward, Community Participation Producer for the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich who today writes about the…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  February 27, 2018

  Biography, History, LGBTQ, London, Women

  Blenheim Palace, Cemetery, Churchill, Greenwich, Lesbian, LGBT, London, Love that dare not speak its name, Marlborough House, National Maritime Museum, Painting, Queen, Queen Anne, tomb, Westminster Abbey