Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson
@annaandthedead.bsky.social
Archaeologist and photographer. Found in cemeteries or near water. 🪦 Home of #31DaysOfGraves 📍Liverpool, UK 🏳️🌈 She/her https://linktr.ee/annafn
If you're in or near Liverpool on the 29th of July come check out our conference day "In Loving Memory - exploring Victorian death, mourning and remembrance" at the Museum of Liverpool. 🪦⚰️ It's free, but you need to book on to attend! www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/muse...
In Loving Memory - exploring Victorian death, mourning and remembrance
In anticipation of our upcoming Skylight gallery display In Loving Memory, join us for a one-day public conference run jointly between the University of Liverpool and the Museum of Liverpool. This eve...
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What's the longest period of use you've seen on a gravestone? Here erected for Christian Peacop in 1876, and also commemorating his great grandson Eric Arthur in 2021. Toxteth Park Cemetery #Liverpool
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead "They had but gone on to await him" The graves of Katie and Ida McKinley, the late President McKinley's children, Canton, Ohio. Ida died in 1873, a few months after she was born; Katie died in 1875 of typhoid, aged 4. www.loc.gov/pictures/res...
Question for #medieval folk, is there any evidence of cremation in rural areas of England during the Black Death?
Anthony and Anna Binns - "the best of Parents and the most sincere Friends" at Lincoln Cathedral.
This afternoon, @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I visited San Michele Cemetery. It's one of my favourite spaces in Venice - a whole island of the dead! Here's a thread on some of the more unusual graves we came across. /1
Help please! I'm putting together a big research proposal that will involve investigating C19th-early C20th burials in Liverpool, Dublin and NYC. If anyone knows of anyone in Dublin & NY who would be helpful for me to talk to/work with, or specific locations of interest, pls drop them here?! 🪦
The chart shows the distribution of burials per year at Lister Lane Cemetery from 1842 to 1963.
Day 29: Occupation Joseph Bonomi (1796–1878) sculptor, traveller, and pioneer Egyptologist. #31daysofgraves
#31daysofgraves Day 24: Unique Animal. A pair of griffins (I think?) on the tablestone for Leonard Chester, 1648, in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It is one of the oldest dated gravestones in New England, and it was carved by my distant grandfather(s), Matthew and/or George Griswold.
Day 24 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'unique animal'. Ive taken a bit of a liberty and chosen a reptile 🐢 But I couldn't not share this wonderful tortoise. 📍St John the Baptist, Aylmerton, Norfolk
#31daysofgraves Day 31: Memento Mori. Henry Robe, 1807, at Copp’s Hill Burying Ground in Boston. Carved by William Bartlett. I know it’s supposed to be an hourglass that he is holding, but I prefer to think of it as the reaper unwinding and enjoying a cold beer after a long day of harvesting souls.
#31daysofgraves Day31 #mementomori ‘remember (that you have) to die" Morebattle Cemetery Kelso Scottish Borders One engraved in the exterior wall of the church Another on the cemetery wall One a headstone I think we get the message!
Legacies in Stone will create many opportunities for people to get involved in local historic #graveyards. #LocalHistory #genealogy #Edinburgh #31DaysOfGraves ewh.org.uk/legacies-in-...
Legacies in Stone wins funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund - Edinburgh World Heritage
This Halloween, Edinburgh World Heritage (EWH) is excited to announce that it has successfully secured funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for Legacies in Stone: Connecting Communities wit...
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The last day of #31DaysOfGraves 31: memento mori. These symbols seem to be very common here in Scotland. Here are just a few from Stirling and Northumberland. Thanks so much for sharing all your pictures. I've really enjoyed seeing them. Thanks too to @annaandthedead.bsky.social for organising! 🎃👻🎃👻
DAY 31: Memento Mori. Last one. It's been a pleasure to participate in #31DaysOfGraves. I've learned a lot and meet very interesting people while starting to acclimatize to Bluesky. Thank you @annaandthedead.bsky.social 🙂 Cemetery of Staglieno (Genova, 08/2015) Digital stereo pair / i3Dsteroid
#31DaysOfGraves Day 31 - Memento mori: Joseph Tapping's headstone at King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Mass. 😍☠️⌛. Died 1678, aged 23y. FUGIT HORA! Time flies! Today is the end of 31 Days. Thank you SO much all who joined me.
Day 30 of #31DaysOfGraves - Colour A wide array of varied species of lichen and mosses provide most of the colour that visitors see when wandering around historic Scottish graveyards...
A windmill on the headstone of John Whittowe, the parish miller, at Hilgay, Norfolk, 1891. He's shown unloading the cart and carrying a sack of grain into the mill. #31DaysofGraves 29: occupation
#31DaysOfGraves Day 30: COLOURS - Yesterday I found wonderful autumn colors in the cemetery. The yellow of the large ginkgo tree shone particularly beautifully against the grey sky. And I even found time for a quick sketch. 🤗🎨🖌️ Cemetery Lütgendortmund 📍 #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #Germany
Day 30 #31daysofgraves - colour. A red, blue, gold and white Christogram inlaid on the headstone of William Righton who died aged 31 in 1867. I’m impressed at the durability of this decoration, considering it’s over a hundred and fifty years old.
#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 - Colour: Coloured tiles on the monument to Daniel McCoy of Carrickmacross, d.1868, buried at Ford Cemetery, Liverpool.
#31DaysOfGraves Day 29 - Occupation: I haven't seen many women's occupations on C19th memorials. Ann Wallace was a corset maker, died 1857. At Nellfield Cemetery, Aberdeen.
#31daysofgraves day 28 - column. I know I’m slightly cheating by posting a photo of a grave I used for another prompt but I remembered I have the original paperwork for it: “best York stone coursing, best White Hard Sicilian Marble Column Headstone, Kerbs, and Posts, as design selected.”
