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More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two ...
I have seen the Tomb of The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey many times, but it wasn’t until I stopped to study the inscription a couple of years ago that I fully understood what it represented.
Journalist and Bronte historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Bronte Society Gazette, raised the issue with the Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, and the Abbey asked its ...
With a history which stretches all the way back to the 10th century, Westminster Abbey has stood through the lives of important people and world-changing events. But who is buried in in the floor ...
The rectangular stone tablet is in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, where writers including Shakespeare, Dickens and Austen are commemorated. The inscriptions were installed in 1939 as a ...
Adam shot himself near his home at Brighton, Melbourne on 24th June 1870 and his grave is in the cemetery there. "Adam Lindsay Gordon. Westminster Abbey Memorial Volume" by Douglas Sladen (1934) (this ...
By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey For 85 years, the names of three of English literature’s best-known writers, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, were featured in ...
On the floor of the north transept of Westminster Abbey is a memorial stone to six soldiers ... He was killed leading an attack on 11th Marcy 1858 and was buried in the cemetery of the residence at ...
In the hit parade of famous graveyards, Vienna’s Central Cemetery must be in the top three alongside Paris’ Père Lachaise and Westminster Abbey. Situated on the outskirts of Vienna, ...
Highgate Cemetery is perhaps the most famous of them all ... Attractions include the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Kensington Palace, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Tour, and ...
Westminster Abbey is generally busy – and the staff keeps you moving at a pretty swift pace – so do a little research ahead of time to avoid missing your personal must-sees. For instance ...