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We are pleased to announce a new Events programme based at the Cemetery.  The final talk of the first season will take place in the Cemetery's Grade I Listed chapel in the evening, a time when both building and surroundings are particularly evocative. 

Bookings should be made in advance by email on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  Tickets cost £7 each (£5 for students on production of a valid student card). Refreshments and nibbles are included in the ticket price.  Space is limited so please book early to be sure of a place.

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The English Way of Death - Dr Julian Litten 

Friday March 12th 2010
6.30 for 7.00pm (please note slightly earlier time)
  
This illustrated talk will show how we moved away from the pomp and panoply of the post-medieval funeral to the clinical anonymity of present-day obsequies, explaining the rise of the undertaking trade and the changing etiquette which governed burial: for the rich, embalming, heraldic parades and intramural burial in the family vault - and for the poor, parochial processions through muddy fields and burial in a corner of the churchyard.

 
Dr Julian Litten FSA, an erudite and witty speaker who has "sniffed the air in a hundred burial vaults", is England's leading authority on post-medieval burial practices. He is a member of the Executive of the Association of Burial Authories and of the Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England. He is founder of the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery and the Friends of King's Lynn Cemetery.