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December 2024
Highgate Cemetery Planning Application special issue: Looking Ahead. Overview / Landscape / Sustainability / New Buildings / Planning Documents / Please support us
August 2024
Remembering the Governesses / The true origins of Holly Village / New membership scheme / Our Florence Nightingales / A new Gothic seat / Coming up
April 2024
Chair's note / The tragedy of the Princess Alice / A pioneer in cancer treatment and his soulmate (Tony Jelliffe and Ula Bienenstok) / 'A veritable tumult of tombs' (H. G. Wells writes about monuments in Highgate Cemetery / Highgate Cemetery Act update / Lottery success / From the archives / News roundup / Historic cemeteries news
December 2023
Chair's note / Killed in action fighting the Vichy French troops / Come for the views / Conservation update / Highgate Cemetery Act first steps / From the archives / News roundup / Historic cemeteries news
August 2023
Chair's note / Found! The lost grave of one of the first abstract artists (Georgiana Houghton) / Ash dieback / Filling up down under (Australian cemeteries) / From the archives / News roundup / Historic cemeteries news
April 2023
Chair's note / Varvara De Vesselitsky: A pioneer social researcher / The real designer of the Beer mausoleum / Through enemy action / News roundup / Historic cemeteries news
December 2022
Chair's note / Connections with colonial slavery / Highland gentleman, Bristol banker and West India Merchant / A near to faultless building on former Cemetery land / Peace on paper / News roundup / Historic cemeteries news
August 2022
Chair's note / The funeral of the Highgate Hill runaway motor bus driver / An angel fails to please / Putto mended / Florence Nightingale's Goddess / The ravages of Storm Eunice / News roundup / Historic cemeteries news
April 2022
Chair's note / Queen Victoria's midwife / Herbert Spencer orders his tomb / The Highgate Cemetery Act 2022 / A naval hero of the Crimean War / The ravages of Storm Eunice / From our collection / News roundup / Historic cemeteries news
December 2021
Chair's note / 'Something resembling Pere Lachaise' / Path renewal at Pere Lachaise / Conservation project update / The first burial in prestigious Highgate was a bootmaker's wife / Last WW1 centenary commemorated / News roundup / Historic cemeteries news
August 2021
Chair's note / Stacked, bound and balanced (Phyllida Barlow sculpture) / Lizzie Siddal's moving epitaph / Competitions update / The forgotten Pankurst boys / Historic pictures of London cemeteries / News roundup / Historic cemeteries news
April 2021
Chair's note / Keeping their tails bushy (foxes) / A surprising haven for life (spiders) / A historic cemetery for the twenty-first century (landscape competition shortlist) / News roundup / Historic cemeteries news