The Graveyards And Cemeteries Of Edinburgh
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Author | : Charlotte Golledge |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2020-02-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1445694255 |
The history of burial in Edinburgh and the city’s graveyards and cemeteries. This fascinating portrait of life and death in Edinburgh over the centuries will appeal to both residents and visitors to the Scottish capital.
Author | : Jan-Andrew Henderson |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2015-08-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1445647990 |
Edinburgh's cemeteries have been notorious for centuries, from the infamous Greyfriars to the countless crypts, graveyards and mausoleums that proliferate through the city. This book reveals a host of traditions and stories regarding these distinctive sites, as told by an expert on the subject.
Author | : Charlotte Golledge |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1445688190 |
Explore the story of Greyfriars Graveyard, Edinburgh’s most important burial ground since the 16th century.
Author | : Neil Gaiman |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2010-09-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0060530944 |
It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.
Author | : Peter Ross |
Publisher | : Headline |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : Cemeteries |
ISBN | : 9781472267788 |
"Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? What is the remarkable truth about Phoebe Hessel, who disguised herself as a man to fight alongside her sweetheart, and went on to live in the reigns of five monarchs? Why is a Bristol cemetery the perfect wedding venue for goths? All of these sorrowful mysteries - and many more - are answered in A Tomb With A View, a book for anyone who has ever wandered through a field of crooked headstones and wondered about the lives and deaths of those who lie beneath"--Publisher's description.
Author | : Loren Rhoads |
Publisher | : Black Dog & Leventhal |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0316473790 |
A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography andtheir unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pè Lachaise cemetery each year.They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.
Author | : Sylvia E. Thornbush |
Publisher | : Bentham Science Publishers |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2020-04-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9811441243 |
his interdisciplinary reference work presents a linked consideration, to the reader, of physical- cultural (physicocultural) representations of headstones located in urban churchyards in England and Scotland. The geomorphology of landscapes relevant to these locations is explained with the help of detailed case studies from Oxford and Edinburgh. The integrated physicocultural approach addresses the conservation of the archaeological record and presents a cross-temporal perspective of landscape change – of the headstones as landforms in their landscape (as part of deathscapes). The physical record (of headstones) is examined in the context of both cultural representation and change. In this way, an integrated approach is employed that connects the physical (natural) and cultural (social) records kept by historians and archeologists over the years. Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards is of interest to geomorphologists, historians and scholars interested in understanding landscaping studies and cultural nuance of specific historical urban sites in England and Scotland.
Author | : George Alfred Walker |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2014-03-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781498009621 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1839 Edition.
Author | : Joy Neighbors |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2017-10-20 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1440352143 |
Not all research can be done from home--sometimes you have to head into the field. Cemeteries are crucial for any genealogist's search, and this book will show you how to search for and analyze your ancestors' graves. Discover tools for locating tombstones, tips for traipsing through cemeteries, an at-a-glance guide to frequently used gravestone icons, and practical strategies for on-the-ground research. And once you've returned home, learn how to incorporate gravestone information into your research, as well as how to upload grave locations to BillionGraves and record your findings in memorial pages on Find A Grave. • Detailed step-by-step guides to finding ancestors' cemeteries using websites like Find A Grave, plus how to record and preserve death and burial information • Tips and strategies for navigating cemeteries and finding individual tombstones in the field, plus an at-a-glance guide to tombstone symbols and iconography • Resources and techniques for discovering other death records and incorporating information from cemeteries into genealogical research
Author | : Joy Porter |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2021-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350199745 |
This book examines the extraordinary life of Frank “Toronto” Prewett and the history of trauma, literary expression, and the power of self-representation after WWI. Joy Porter sheds new light on how the First World War affected the Canadian poet, and how war-induced trauma or “shell-shock” caused him to pretend to be an indigenous North American. Porter investigates his influence of, and acceptance by, some of the most significant literary figures of the time, including Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves. In doing so, Porter skillfully connects a number of historiographies that usually exist in isolation from one another and rarely meet. By bringing together a history of the WWI era, early twentieth century history, Native American history, the history of literature, and the history of class Porter expertly crafts a valuable contribution to the field.