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Today’s #31DaysOfGraves prompt is ‘faith’. This gravestone, featuring hands held in the position of Kohanim blessing, is in the Jewish Burial Ground in Westgate Hill, Newcastle.

A weathered gravestone, with grass and daisies in the foreground. The top layer of darkened sandstone has mostly come off, leaving a golden colour beneath on which the lettering, in Hebrew and English, is still legible. At the top of the stone are two hands in the position of a Kohanim Blessing.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I loved the queer rep lighting design at the Queens Hall for Grace Petrie’s gig yesterday.

Three stacked photos of a band playing on a stage, with lighting in different queer pride flags- the top one is a rainbow, the middle is blue purple and pink, the bottom is light blue, light pink, and white.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If you’ve ever travelled with me, you’ll know that I always try to visit the local old cemetery wherever I am. Today’s #31DaysOfGraves comes from Faro, Portugal, where my partner got dragged round two cemeteries and an ossuary! The prompt is ‘language’.

A white gravestone featuring columns, ivy garlands, a serpent, and a Gothic arch. The inscription is in Portuguese.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

‘Bricks’ is today’s #31DaysOfGraves prompt. - Here’s the late summer evening sun streaming through the arches in the colonnade at Brompton casting shadows of gravestones.

A long view through an arched brick built colonnade. The sun is coming from the left, casting Golden Arches on the darker brick walls, and each arch contains a shadow of a gravestone.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I have *so many* photos i could use for today’s #31DaysOfGraves prompt of ‘unusual’, but I’ve gone with this one from my local cemetery. I’ve never seen another quite like it. - Agnes Elder died aged 19 in 1866, and is buried here alongside her parents, David and Catherine.

A view of a gravestone - it’s a column with a spiral going around it, topped with what look like 4 turrets and the spiral forming a point. To the sides are four standard sized and shaped gravestones. There’s grass in the foreground and trees behind.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy #MementoMoriMonday to one and all! - I took this photo six years ago - my gravestone photography has improved since then! Sadly, the old cemetery in South Queensferry is now locked due to vandalism and inaccessible to the public.

An old and weathered gravestone featuring a skull, two cherubs blowing trumpets, a winged head, an hourglass, and crossed shovels.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Today’s prompt in #31DaysOfGraves is ‘ordinary’. - These images are from St John at Hackney Churchyard Garden, where the headstones of hundreds of ordinary Londoners from the 1800s have been moved to the perimeter of the space, creating an open public park for current ordinary Londoners.

The corner of a London park, parched grass surrounded by a red brick wall with trees and buildings beyond. In front of the wall are repositioned grey gravestones, stood in rows three deep.

Two rows of grey, weathered gravestones against a red brick wall. Each row is three deep.

A red brick wall with a three deep row of grey gravestones in front of it stretching off into the distance

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Cycled past this excellent Halloween #yarnbombing this morning

The top of a postbox with crocheted Halloween figures - this photo has a grumpy grim reaper and a pumpkin lantern with long stripy legs

The top of a postbox with crocheted Halloween figures - this photo has a ghost in an orange pointy hat and a bat applique

The top of a postbox with crocheted Halloween figures - this photo has a spider with two big eyes, a black cat appliqué, and a small pumpkin

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves day 11 - ‘humorous” - I did a genuine double take at this monument in Dunbar with the unfortunate loss of a letter… - The photo is cropped so as not to show the names of the deceased, I don’t mean to be disrespectful, please take this with lighthearted intention.

A grey granite gravestone surrounded by yew branches. The letter I has fallen off the word arise, so part of the inscription now reads “arse shine”

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Best profession on a gravestone I’ve seen in ages: aerated water manufacturer.

A grey gravestone to Gilbert Rae and Jane Crombie, who died 1924 and 1935 respectively.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m loving seeing all the #31DaysOfGraves daily posts, the variety in interpretation and the pictures from places I’ve never been especially. - Yay for the cemetery nerds community! 🪦🖤

A grid of nine images of graves and cemeteries I’ve posted so far in response to the 31 days of graves prompt list.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#31DaysofGraves day 10: ‘missing’. - This is from a visit along the coast to Culross back in January. A lot of the memorials here date from the 1700’s, and some are so heavily worn and weathered that the inscriptions are now entirely missing.

A heavily worn old tombstone set into a tall wall. It has columns on each side, and an arched top. Along the upper horizontal section there are carved skulls and crossed bones, but in the area where the names would be, all there is is worn away sandstone.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Day 9 of #31DaysOfGraves prompt is ‘lettering’. - I like the cursive script on William Blake’s gravestone at Bunhill Fields. This marker has only been in place since 2018, following work to identify the exact location of his burial. The previous stone is still there too.

A pale rectangular tombstone laid flat in the ground surrounded by darker coloured bricks. Flowers have been placed around the edge of the stone. Grass can be seen to the top and right sides, and there are some fallen autumn leaves.

A simple gravestone set in stone paving to William Blake and his wife Catherine, stating that their remains lie nearby. To the right is a glass iced tea bottle holding a bunch of yellow roses.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Back to Abney Park again for today’s #31DaysOfGraves prompt of ‘animal’. I have lots of pictures of graves featuring animal imagery and wildlife in cemeteries, but Susannah and Frank Bostock’s lion tugs at my heartstrings. - The second picture is a digital drawing I made (no AI!) a while back.

A large white tomb with a carved sleeping lion on top of it set among trees.

A digital drawing on the sleeping lion from the previous picture. The background is a beige, the drawing is dark green and was made using Procreate. The effect is a detailed charcoal drawing.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Instagram asked if I was sure I wanted to post this…

A meme.
Two images of Indiana Jones, one lecturing, one fighting.
The text reads: I came here to teach humanities and punch nazis.
And they keep cutting funding to the humanities.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For today’s prompt of ‘home’ for #31DaysOfGraves, I’ve chosen Charlotte Sharman’s headstone in Abney Park. - She set up and ran several homes for young girls who’d been orphaned to provide care and education. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlot...

A rectangular gravestone in grey granite with carved leaves and flowers to each side of the inscription. The surface is green with lichen, and it’s surrounded by ivy and brambles.

The inscription reads:

IN AFFECTIONATE AND ENDURING REMEMBRANCE OF CHARLOTTE SHARMAN, WHO DIED ON DECEMBER 5th 1929 IN THE 98th YEAR OF HER AGE.
FOUNDER AND FOR 67 YEARS
HONORARY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE HOME FOR ORPHAN GIRLS TO WHICH SHE DEVOTED HER LIFE INSPIRED BY A NOBLE FAITH AND A BOUNDLESS LOVE FOR LITTLE ONES LEFT DESOLATE.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today’s prompt in #31DaysOfGraves is ‘weather’. - Last year, I had a holiday in Mallorca with my mum. The day I chose to explore along the coast on a rental bike was wild and stormy, but I still explored the local cemetery.

A view of a cemetery in Mallorca, looking down a marble path with rows of graves to each side, there are mountains in the background, the ground is wet, and there are storm clouds overhead.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m not forgetting it’s #MementoMoriMonday! - This little skull is part of a large ornate tomb in Greyfriars, Edinburgh, where I had a lovely autumnal walk almost a year ago.

A small curved skull facing to the left is positioned on the side of a large tomb. Only a little of the tomb is visible, a carved column. It’s dark stone against a lighter stone wall.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I did it, I sent the form that officially sets things in motion towards doing a PhD…

A screenshot of a webpage, mostly red with a white section below, showing that I submitted a postgraduate research enquiry to the University of Chester.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Day 5 of #31DaysOfGraves prompt is ‘vehicle’. - Richard Tams’ memorial has an engraved scene featuring what I think is a Romani vardo, though please correct my terminology if it’s not accurate, I mean to be respectful.

A black gravestone with gold lettering. At the top is an engraved scene featuring a Romani wagon, a cart, and horses.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Devin Townsend’s ‘Spirits Will Collide’ has never made me cry before, but with various Life Things going on right now, it got me good. Fuck, I love live music! That was a heartachingly beautiful solo acoustic show 🖤

An unflatteringly angled selfie. Im a white 40-something with brown hair and black framed glasses and a septum piercing. I’m smiling, holding my phone on my lap, and there’s a mirror ball behind me. Two white men are to my left, looking at the stage.

Devin Townsend, a white man in a sage green shirt playing an acoustic guitar on a small stage with soft purple-y lighting.

A large crocheted octopus sitting to the aide of a wooden stage

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I had SO MANY photos to choose from for today’s #31DaysOfGraves prompt - ‘entrance’. - This is the way down into the catacombs at Brompton. I’ve added a closeup of the gates, because the imagery is 🔥

A set of stairs leading down to a locked iron gate. It’s set onto a columned and arched structure with pillars.

Closeup of the gates, with imagery of an Ouroboros, upturned torches, snakes, and a winged hourglass.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves - ‘glass’ - There were various pieces of old broken ceramics and glass on the overgrown paths around St John’s, and being an absolute magpie for shiny things, this one caught my attention.

My hand holding a piece of broken glass with most of the word ‘Newcastle’ on it.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

During my Masters, I delivered a presentation entirely in BSL to an audience who didn't know any sign language to make a point about accessibility of experience and information. Disabled people deserve equitable access to art, culture, heritage, and history.

A screenshot of the headline “blind man sues British Museum over lack of Bayeux Tapestry audio description” with a photo of the Tapestry displayed below.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 2 - ‘urn’ - Memorial to Minnie Wolff in the Jewish section of St John’s Cemetery in Newcastle.

A grey granite memorial with inscriptions in Hebrew and English, topped with a draped urn

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watching the After Dark episode on Artemisia Gentileschi, for reasons…

Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting Judith and Holofernes

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 1 of #31DaysOfGraves list of prompts by @annaandthedead.bsky.social. - For ‘flower’, I looked back at my visit to Sheffield General Cemetery a few winters ago with my friend, her sister, and her niece. I loved this posey. Kinda wish I’d moved the grass stems, though!

A closeup of a gravestone with a carved posey of flowers above the name WILLIAM. There are a few frosty leaves, moss, and grass stems on the stone.

An image of the New Jewish Cemetery, Kraków, overlaid with text:
#31 Days of Graves

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy birthday Mrs Lee’s Granny from my morning commute through Fife, Scotland

Trees and a blue sky with white clouds seen through a train window

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My second hand copy of The Song of Achilles came with some incredible annotations be a previous reader who… yeah, I don’t think she knew the story ahead of time! @madelinemiller.bsky.social! Also @nataliehaynes.bsky.social and @gregjenner.bsky.social, and any classicists!

Photo of a book page, annotated in pencil to say that Agamemnon is a dick

Photo of a book page, annotated in pencil to say that Achilles has a big ego

Photo of a book page, annotated in pencil to say that Patroclus is bisexual

Photo of a book page, annotated in pencil in utter shock and horror the Patroclus dies

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I visited Belle Elmore’s grave yesterday, and lacking as I was in secateurs or gardening gloves, cut back the brambles with my embroidery scissors. Her resting place deserves the care. If you haven’t read Hallie Rubenhold’s ‘Story of a Murder’, it’s well worth your attention.

A side by side before and after photo of a grave site. On the left, the space has brambles growing over it, and in the right, they’ve been cleared.

A close up of the inscription on a gravestone, reading:

IN MEMORIAM

CORA CRIPPEN (BELLE ELMORE)

WHO PASSED AWAY 1st FEB 1910

REST IN PEACE

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m intending on being there.

A screenshot from Instagram showing the details of a vigil for Prof Jason Arday

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I keep forgetting to post Memento Mori Monday on here as well as Insta - this absolute beauty is in Penicuik, Midlothian.

An old gravestone featuring a carved
human skeleton, flanked by two small cherubs standing on skulls

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I feel like this photo captures my essence!

A photo of me, a white early 40s woman with visible tattoos, paddling in the sea while wearing my graduation gown, holding a bottle of Prosecco.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Just a lil pond appreciation post - waterlily, marsh marigold, and water forget-me-not all flowering #bloomscrolling

Marsh marigolds, yellow five petalled flowers, and water forget-me-notes, tiny pale blue flowers.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I keep forgetting I have this app… Anyway, it was Pride in Edinburgh over the weekend. My disabled body wasn’t up to the march, but I drank bubbles in the sun with my glorious community.

A sticker in trans pride colours saying STOP KEEKIN IN MA BREEKS YA WEIRDOS

The t-shirt I wore to Pride - it’s black with a trans flag on it, with SILLY GOTHS FOR TRANS RIGHTS above it in white lettering

A selfie. I’m a white 41 year old woman with brown hair tied up in a knotted scarf. I’m wearing sunglasses and grinning at the camera, holding up a bottle of cheap Prosecco. I have botanical tattoos on my visible forearm, and a black t-shirt saying SILLY GOTHS FOR TRANS RIGHTS on it.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Queer history and a named woman’s bequeathed contribution to girls’ education in 1740s York.

Blue plaque to Anne Lister at the church where she and Ann Walker took sacrament

A plaque stating a woman’s 1741 bequest of financial support for the education of four poor girls in York

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Go exercise your right to tell fascists to go fuck themselves.

A placard for the Scottish Greens outside my local polling station, with my hand in the left foreground, giving a thumbs up. I have chipped green nail polish.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

So I cracked a rib on Saturday, because EDS is the gift that keeps on giving. Speaking of EDS, this is a warmer weather reminder not to comment on other people’s skin (or appearance in general). It’s a dick move. I have livedo reticularis, not sunburn.

A view over the forth estuary from Fife, with the rail bridge visible in the distance

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Two hours creating and editing subtitles on my short film, and another two fiddling about on my iPad making an online flip book version of the accompanying zine. History nerds, cemetery enthusiasts, and other interested parties - it’s free, and it’s hybrid: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/cross...

A selfie from last summer outside the British Library. I’m a white woman with light brown wavy hair wearing a black sleeveless top and a pink and white neckerchief. I have several tattoos on my arms, sunglasses on my head, and I’m smiling with tired eyes at the camera.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Senetti - an unnaturally beautiful shade of blue 💙

A photo of flowers with deep blue petals

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The sun is shining, it’s not even that chilly outside, and I’m here to remind you about death and stuff! I’m screening my short film next month - events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/cross... In-person and online attendance options, because accessibility is cool.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Do I want people to watch my film? Yes Do I enjoy talking about my research? Yes Does being perceived and showing people my work give me the absolute fear? YES

A photograph of metal railings covered in multicoloured ribbons, with text overlay that reads:

Advance notice:
Film screening plus Q&A
Thursday 16th April 19:00-20:30
Arts Building, University of St Andrews
online attendance option available.
more info soon!

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Me, a working class woman, talking in my state school educated regional accent in the hallowed halls of prestigious universities about widening access to HE, because academic elitism can get tae.

A selfie of a white woman with wavy brown hair wearing an academic gown, smiling.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Working class, state educated people like me aren’t inferior quality scholars. We’re priced out of pursuing academia, and we’re alienated by a classist culture of elitism.

Screenshot of an article on the guardian about trinity college Cambridge targeting elite private schools for recruitment

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Also, I’m on holiday this week in Faro. Aside from Capela dos Ossos - the bone chapel - what shouldn’t I miss?

The view out the plane window approaching Faro. Sea and coastline.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Data visualisation by a dyscalculic cemeteries researcher: If all the people estimated to be buried at Crossbones were to attend a University of St Andrews graduation ceremony, they'd fill Younger Hall 15 times over.

The outside of Younger Hall, a building in St Andrews, where graduations are held. There are trees in the foreground and it’s set against a blue sky.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I had a brilliantly insightful conversation Bodmin Jail manager Jess Marlton earlier today about performative memorialisation, constructed narratives, and representation of women's historic experiences. Have I mentioned recently how much I love my research area?

A gravestone commemorating Joan Wytte near Bodmin Jail.

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