🔓🔓My article on 'Sugar' in Victorian Literature and Culture 's 'Keywords Redux' issue is now available Open Access. It outlines how sugar got into Britain's cultural bloodstreams as well as our literal ones in the 19thC. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

News Study!🌟UofG End of Life Studies Group is now recruiting for the 'Unreached' study. We're exploring how financial hardship and rurality impact end-of-life experiences. If you or someone you know fits the criteria and is interested, please get in touch: bit.ly/4aNYicu

Children's drawings from the past - when we're lucky enough to find them preserved like this - remind us that whatever else is going on, there have always been kids around doing kid things: playing, learning, copying, reimagining.

From the Grave Matters blog archive: Hannah Holbrook on Grief and the Good Death in the Music of the American Civil War: gravemattersgroup.co.uk/2023/03/28/sle…

Another fabulous blog from the Grave Matters archive, Stella M. Ramírez Rodríguez on Extreme Embalming as a Practice of Resistance: gravemattersgroup.co.uk/2022/07/14/sta…

Another wonderful blog from the Grave Matters archive by GM co-host Shani Cadwallender: 'Conservation as Consolation: trees and elegy in Wordsworth’s ‘The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome’: gravemattersgroup.co.uk/2023/08/02/con…

Another blog on the death & nature theme from the GM archives by Birkbeck's Jemma Stewart: 'Life is a Flower: Memory and Memorial in the Language of Flowers': gravemattersgroup.co.uk/2022/01/31/lif…

There's still time to sign up for the final Grave Matters event on Monday 10 June at 6pm BST. It's going to be a real show stopper! Sign up here: ticketpass.org/event/EMTKSG/g…

Book day…and editor copies have arrived. A million thanks to everyone who took part…it’s an amazing thing and an amazing resource for anyone interested an any or all aspects of Vampire Studies and couldn’t have happened without all of you! 😍

Are you an unpublished writer from a working-class background? Do you love folk horror? Enter the Bog People writing competition to have your fiction featured in a new major collection of folk horror from Chatto&Windus Penguin Books UK

More from the Grave Matters blog archive! @Graveyard_arch on Archaeology of Coffins & Shrouds in Colonial North America: gravemattersgroup.co.uk/2023/11/01/arc…

Everything you need to know about Victorian mourning garb thanks to Chris Woodyard from the Grave Matters blog archive: gravemattersgroup.co.uk/2024/01/22/two…

So excited for the final Grave Matters tonight! With talks from the esteemed Roger Luckhurst @Trabbs_Bhoy and Stephen Gordon You can sign up to attend here: ticketpass.org/event/EMTKSG/g…

The plight of the small press, appealing for support in the face of poor sales, is often framed as a financial issue. While th​e​re is, of course, ​​some truth in this, it's never simply a matter of money, and money is rarely the most important matter. A 🧵 (1/​8)

New on the Grave Matters blog: '‘In sure and certain hope…’: Church of England funeral rites from the Tudors to Today' by Harriet Johnson (she/her), a fascinating look at how funeral rites have changed: gravemattersgroup.co.uk/2024/06/10/in-…

Delighted to have been able to contribute to Grave Matters: Death Studies Discussion Group - first with a talk at a meeting and now turning that into a blog for their otherwise excellent website.

After an incredible final Grave Matters session last night with amazing talks from Stephen Gordon @Trabbs_Bhoy and Roger Luckhurst covering flaming monks, gothic graveyards and embalming Russians, we just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has been part of GM over the years 🖤

Has anyone got a copy of J. Davies (Ed.) (1994), Ritual and Remembrance: Responses to Death in Human Societies. Sheffield Academic Press? I need to look up the page numbers of a chapter in it 🙏 #DeathStudies

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