Name: The British Cemetery with Dr Roger Bowdler - LIVE
Start: 2026-08-03T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-08-03T20:30:00+01:00
Location: The Last Tuesday Society / Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities

The British Cemetery with Dr Roger Bowdler - LIVE

An illustrated talk with Dr Roger Bowdler celebrating the British Cemetery: the gardens for the dead.
About this Event

Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture. Tickets include a complimentary glass of . Doors open at 6:30pm and talk starts at 7pm

The British Cemetery with Dr Roger Bowdler

Cemeteries replaced overfilled urban graveyards in the late Georgian period and flourished under the Victorians. The gloomy business of body disposal gave way to landscapes celebrating the dead. This talk looks at some of the stranger monuments which were erected, ranging from the grandest bronze statues to great big lumps of raw granite; from abstract sculptures by Barbara Hepworth to a weird marble Druid.

With Brent Elliott, Roger Bowdler has written the biggest survey of British cemeteries published to date. There are acres and acres of mass-produced tombstones but every so often something strange comes along. These discoveries will be shared and spirits lifted in an illustrated talk celebrating these gardens for the dead.

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The venue opens at 18:30. Doors will close at 19:00 to avoid disrupting the speaker. We kindly ask that all guests arrive before 19:00. Refunds are not possible for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances.