Conversations in Graveyards: A Field Guide to the Social History of Memorials.
New on-line publication by Bob Trubshaw.
This new publication by LAHS member Bob Trubshaw is now available online. As he writes: ‘We visit churchyards for various reasons. To pay our respects at the graves of family and friends. To research more distant ancestors. For some, peace and quiet among often attractive trees and plants. And, in my case, also to ponder on how memorials are part of ever-evolving social history. Conversations in Churchyards aims to provide a very concise outline – a “field guide” if you like – spanning what can be discerned by an informed look at churchyard memorials.
Examples are mostly from Leicestershire and Rutland, in part because there are uniquely good late seventeenth and eighteenth century memorials carved on Charnwood (‘Swithland’) slate which resists weathering much better than comparable limestone memorials. However this guide is intended to inspire you to go out and find your own examples in churchyards near you’. It is available as a free PDF only – see https://www.hoap.co.uk/index.htm.
