Date and Time
November 17, 2012 - 10am – 5pm
Location
Weston Theatre, Museum of London
Timetable
- Time Content
- 10 am President’s Opening Remarks
- 10.30 am St Brides’s: Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief, Jelena Bekvalac, Curator Human Osteology, MoL
- 11 am ‘I will have a stone to lye a pone me’: Memory and Commemoration in Medieval London, Christian Steer, Royal Holloway, University of London
- 12 pm Publications awards, Introduction by John Hinshelwood, and Presentations by the President
- 1 pm Lunch break
- 2 pm Mortality in London 1550-1800, Peter Razzell, Historical Demographer
- 3 pm The Gruesome History of Body Snatching, Robert Stephenson, Guide in the City of London and at Kensal Green Cemetery
- 4 pm Tea Breask
- 4.10 pm From Here to Eternity: Victorian Developments in the Disposal of the Dead, John Clarke, Head of Library Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Consultant Historian to Brookwood Cemetery
- 4.30 pm The Last Word: Epitaphs and Obituaries, Brent Elliott, Historian, Royal Horticultural Society
The conference programme will include a short presentation on the local history wooden grave boards project.
The displays by Local History Societies will be on show from 10am until 5pm and can be visited throughout the day in the Clore Learning Centre above the Weston Theatre.