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A Victorian Christmas Festive Convivial!
Tuesday 17 December 2024 £20Book now
Don't Go Into The Cellar presents Jonathan Goodwin in his specially written Victorian Christmas Festive Convivial.
Enjoy a very special Christmas performance at Highgate Cemetery this December! Award-winning actor Jonathan Goodwin brings to life an array of Victorian characters in a one-man theatre performance based on the lives of the most famous celebrated residents of the burial ground. A splendidly seasonal and entertaining way to celebrate this festive time of year.
Tickets include mince pies and festive punch. Dressing up encouraged, but not compulsory!
7.30pm in the chapel
From Death Scare to Death Care
Thursday 23 January 2025 £8Book now
A talk by Lande Jewels
How exposure to attributes of death through cemetery visits and literature helps to overcome the fears about the unavoidable natural process.
‘Lande Jewels approaches a topic none of us can ignore, nor escape, and portrays it sensitively, bringing much knowledge and history to light, leaving us dreading less, and understanding more. The rituals surrounding this universal topic, reassuringly reminding us also of the unbroken circle of life, where the veil thins, and visitors and deceased share space with each other in the devoted grounds, consecrated or not.’ Goodreads
A Particular Passion For Poisoning
Thursday 20 February 2025 £10Book now
A talk by Professor Robin Ferner
Poisoners who murdered and those who helped bring them to justice both had a passion for poisoning. The poisoners are buried elsewhere; famous toxicologists, notably Alfred Swaine Taylor and Henry Letheby, and counsel in famous trials, including Sir Fitzroy Kelly, lie in Highgate. Robin Ferner, a leading expert on toxicology and clinical pharmacology, will talk about some famous poisoners from the 19th and 20th century and their route to the gallows.
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