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Sam Perrin

@misssamperrin

Historian of death & burial sites | MA Victorian Studies | Associate Member NFCF | Speaker | Boxing fan I Runs @tempusfugittour ⌛️🪽

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Esther McVey is in the news for banning rainbow lanyards. Here’s how the Minister for Common Sense also spends your money

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Articles are like buses... nothing and then three opportunities come along at once.

It feels good to be productive ☺️

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Good morning all!

The NFCF's National Cemeteries Week approaches (8-16 June) and Tempus Fugit Tours will be leading tours of the stunning # to celebrate.

Watch this space 🪦🪻

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'The double burial was discovered in one of the most significant of these graveyards, the “eastern cemetery,” in 2004. Its unusual contents sparked immediate interest.'

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thi…

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'It is a means of delivering ourselves toward the new world without someone. And it is a reminder to the living, to live.'

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John William Beetles died in late September or early October 1893 in London. He was possibly a builder and lived in the Holloway area, not far from where he is interred in the catacombs at Highgate Cemetery.

His estate at the time of his death was worth around 22,000 pounds.

John William Beetles died in late September or early October 1893 in London. He was possibly a builder and lived in the Holloway area, not far from where he is interred in the catacombs at Highgate Cemetery. His estate at the time of his death was worth around 22,000 pounds.
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While writing THE FACEMAKER, I struggled reading accounts of disfigured soldiers from the First World War who endured months/years of painful reconstructive surgery only to be sent back into the trenches and die from new injuries. 💔

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