So pleased you like this: we were fortunate that Liverpool Univ Press produce well illustrated works. Cemeteries can be visually gorgeous.
Roger Bowdler
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Loves a bit of #gravedigging. History of British Cemeteries co-written with Brent Elliott out in March 2026 Liverpool Univ Press
![Monument to Martha Bianchi (d. 1936) in Hampstead Cemetery, with a blue sky and trees behind. The apogee of the Art Deco monument, combining tender family scenes with a very sleek angel. The makers are unknown, but are likely to have been Italian. [Courtesy of Roger Bowdler, 2022]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:32czjyaipq5x36y6sut5hpmc/bafkreicuxcrk3qf2b6jfpd2p2lyeau7xs7e2yhmm757egwmgb6rm32driu)
![Tomb of John St John Long (d. 1834) by Robert Sievier (right); tomb of Andrew Ducrow (d. 1842) and his wife Margaret (d. 1838) by George Danson (left), in Kensal Green Cemetery. Trees are in the background and grass, autumn leaves and a path in the foreground. Long’s monument features a statue of Hygeia, goddess of health, and a startling epitaph to a medical charlatan. [Courtesy of Roger Bowdler, 2020]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:32czjyaipq5x36y6sut5hpmc/bafkreihf7rg2umjixf54qsslkwexoojnlkf75gpmabjm73cezvmzspbvfm)
![Burngreave Cemetery, Sheffield (William Flockton, 1861): a massive Gothic chapel sited for maximum effect at the top of a greensward slope. Photographed from outside the open gates with a blue sky and trees surrounding. [Courtesy of Roger Bowdler, 2023]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:32czjyaipq5x36y6sut5hpmc/bafkreicttdprzxwp7g7lkeirkv6nsmznznsdl64bcrfkakid5om6qpgzuy)
![Oystermouth Cemetery, Swansea (1884): Edwardian postcard by Frederick Hartmann. Features a topiary avenue, many light-coloured tombstones, and trees surrounding. Slightly cropped text at the top of the postcard reads 'Mumbles Cemetery, near Swansea.' [Courtesy of Brent Ellliott's collection]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:32czjyaipq5x36y6sut5hpmc/bafkreicmg4axeyabv52ne3lbtobt5cga7xyma5onffsy2hugfegdjovh6i)
![Promotional image for The British Cemetery. To the left is the book's cover image showing a stone cemetery monument with a palm tree set against a clear blue sky and grass foreground. The background image is Brompton Cemetery (1848): openwork walls with railings and trees above [courtesy of Roger Bowdler, 2024] with a dark overlay. To the right is text reading 'The first comprehensive history of British cemeteries by experts, celebrating funereal landscapes and their tombs.' with LUP and Historic England logos in white in the bottom right.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:32czjyaipq5x36y6sut5hpmc/bafkreigkoewxmy76t42frq34e3z2x5xylzfx34fpg5ugsabcujdmrogfce)
