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Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day

A guide to Remembrance Day & Remembrance Sunday, with information on the Poppy Appeal, two minute silence, Festival of Remembrance and remembrance services

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What Do You Wear To A Funeral?

What Do You Wear To A Funeral?

A guide to what to wear to a funeral, including information on what men and women can wear to traditional and casual funerals

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What Is A Barrow?

What Is A Barrow?

A guide to modern barrows and burial mounds, with information on the history and purpose of barrows. Would you be buried in a barrow?

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Loving Memory Christmas Gifts

Loving Memory Christmas Gifts

A guide to Christmas memorial ideas and memorial Christmas gifts in loving memory of someone who has died, including Christmas memorial baubles and ornaments.

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Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead

A guide to the history and meaning of Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, with information on traditions, festivals, and food in Mexico and around the world, including art, costumes, face paint and sugar skulls

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Famous Funeral Paintings in Western Art

Famous Funeral Paintings in Western Art

A guide to famous depictions of funerals in western art, including ‘A Burial at Ornans’ by Gustave Courbet, ‘The Funeral of Shelley’ by Louis Edouard Fournier and ‘A Funeral: Tribute to Oskar Panizza’ by George Grosz

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Funeral Train

Funeral Train

A guide to funeral trains, with information on funeral train services & famous funeral trains, including the London Necropolis Railway Line & London Necropolis Railway Station & George H.W. Bush’s funeral train

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What Is Danse Macabre

What Is Danse Macabre

A guide to the meaning of danse macabre, or the dance of death, in art, music, and literature, from the Black Death until the present, including works by Holbein, Saint-Saëns, and Liszt

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St. George’s Chapel, the Royal Vault & the Royal Burial Ground

St. George’s Chapel, the Royal Vault & the Royal Burial Ground

A guide to royal burials and tombs in St. George’s Chapel, the Royal Vault and the Royal Burial Ground in Windsor, including King George VI, the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson

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Famous Funerals

Famous Funerals

A guide to the most famous funerals of celebrities around the world, including the funerals of Winston Churchill, Princess Diana, John F. Kennedy, Grace Kelly & Nelson Mandela

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What Are Professional Mourners?

What Are Professional Mourners?

A guide to professional mourners and their place in history.

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Victorian Mourning Jewellery

Victorian Mourning Jewellery

A guide to mourning jewellery in the 19th century

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What is Thanatophobia?

What is Thanatophobia?

thanatophobia: a guide to fear of death, with information on symptoms and treatment of death anxiety

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Famous War Memorials

Famous War Memorials

A guide to famous war memorials around the world, including the Arc de Triomphe, Cenotaph, Menin Gate, and Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Funeral Traditions in Medieval England

Funeral Traditions in Medieval England

A guide to medieval funeral traditions in England, how they changed and what influenced them.

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