Written by Lauren
Rating: 5
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As a London Month of the Dead regular, I was chuffed to have an event around Christmas. The performance was fantastic and the atmosphere was perfect!
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £12.50
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Sun, 19th Oct 2025 @ 15:30 - 17:00
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15:30 - 17:00
Beneath the streets of London lies a hidden city of
the dead: crypts, ossuaries, and vaults that have preserved the
bones and stories of centuries past. In this talk, Jelena Bekvalac
(Curator of Human Osteology at the Museum of London) and Rachel
Ives (archaeologist and researcher at Natural History Museum) delve
into the stories of two of London's most important crypts, drawing
on their work with human remains, burial spaces and the fascinating
discoveris entombed within.
Jelana will discuss the excavations at Christopher Wren's St
Bride’s, and Rachel, those at Nicholas Hawksmoor's Christ Church,
Spitalfields. Their illustrated talks will explore what crypts can
tell us, not just about death, but about the lives, health, and
beliefs of Londoners through time.and what the remains of these
people have taught, and are still telling, us about the lives of
past Londoners.
Expect tales of plague and preservation, of
lead-lined coffins and curious burials, and the ways in which
science and storytelling come together underground.
Jelena Bekvalac
is the Curator of Human Osteology at the Museum of London, a role she has held since 2008 after initially joining as a research osteologist in 2003. Her work encompasses curation of extensive post-medieval and medieval skeletal collections, public outreach, research on London health and contributions to major museum exhibitions.
Rachel Ives
Rachel Ives is a postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum, London. Prior to joining the Museum, Rachel was a human bone specialist in commercial archaeology where she excavated and studied human remains, specialising in post-medieval funerary archaeology and paleopathology and working on the Christ Church Spitalfields excavation archive and analysing the human remains from the crypt for research into health in post-medieval London.
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SUBTERRANEAN SANCTUARIES
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15:30 - 17:00 | £12.50 |
Location
Address
Brompton Cemetery Chapel, North gate off Old Brompton Road, South gate off Fulham Road, London, SW5 9JE
Nearest Station
West Brompton (Tube)
Getting there
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city.
Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported.
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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