I went to the new Frida Kahlo exhibition at London's Tate Modern yesterday and loved it, both as someone who enjoys art and who is inter...

Daffodils seem to be out everywhere after a few days of sunshine. The picture above shows one of many growing in my garden.  They are an ico...

Before Samhain - or Halloween - for many years I blogged with photos of London's burial grounds under the title London Necropolis. A Nec...

Cabinets of Death is the wonderful title of a new exhibition at Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities in East London. I had a look around ...

Today, Friday 11 November 2022, is Armistice Day, marking the anniversary of the date the armistice was signed between the Allies and German...

This skull and bones on a small coffin is one of the works of art on display in the lobby at Kensal Green Cemetery Dissenters' Chapel du...

Today, October 2nd is Braughing Old Man’s Day. Back in the sixteenth century a resident of the Hertfordshire village, Mathew Wall, had a luc...

I drew a card for the world at the Autumn Equinox and it was the Seven of Vessels. It shows a skull with grave goods as offerings - cups, a ...

I visited Green Park yesterday to see the floral tributes for the queen. The route there wound around the outer walls of Buckingham Palace a...

 Like so many I was shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Queen Elizabeth II yesterday afterrnoon. This morning I wrote a poem: It w...

Kelley Harrell runs a soul-tending practice, focussing on deathwalking. She is also the author of several books. I interviewed her about her...

Most museums that exhibit items from Ancient Egypt will have little effigies like this on display. They are coffin servants known as ushabt...

Whether you want to wear a poppy for Remembrance Day on November 11, or create a wreath or flower crown for a pagan rite to honour the dead,...

  Here's a video of the talk I gave on Facebook Live yesterday (Friday) about October customs, Samhain, Halloween, Apple Day, and belief...

Here is a guided visualisation for Samhain, which is a time to think about the spirits of those who have died, and for Halloween, the time ...

As today is Remembrance Sunday , here is a picture of a poppy painted on a stone at the war graves in Nunhead Cemetery . Let's reme...

This is the site in London where a grave-robber first stole a body for medical experiments, back in 1777. Nowadays, it is a quiet, little...

I have long loved ‘The Waste Land’ – TS Eliot’s 1922 poem about London as a doomed, ‘unreal’ city, populated by people who are dead, but ...

I've had a few encounters with death. Here is an essay I wrote about them for the book Shaman Pathways - Deathwalking: Helping Them Cros...

Before Samhain - or Halloween - for several years I've been posting a series of photos of London's burial grounds under the title...