Memorials, Monuments

Available in a limited print run of 1,000 sets—the stunning nine-volume presentation of the incredible Buddhist caves at Dunhuang in northwestern C...

It seems absurd to claim it, but the Battle of Passchendaele was in many ways worse than the Somme. The British offensive, also known as the Third ...

The streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and monuments commemorating the city’s great figures and events – from Nelson’s Colum...

When Greyfriars Graveyard opened in Edinburgh in the sixteenth century, built on the site of a Franciscan monastery on the edge of the Old Town bel...

In medieval Edinburgh the dead were buried in the city’s churchyards, with internment in the church reserved for the wealthy, but in the post-Refor...

This is a captivating addition to New Holland's London walks list, focusing on important, memorable or beautiful statues, sculptures and monuments ...

Published in association with English Heritage, this fact-filled gift book is the perfect tribute to this iconic historical landmark, the best-know...

The last veteran of the First World War has long since died, and those of the Second are getting ever scarcer, but public interest in war memorials...

Epitaphs of the Great War Passchendaele is an edited collection of headstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during the Third Battle o...

'A treasure-trove of inspiration . . . [Beyond the Footpath] shows us how to make the most of the calm beauty of the natural world that surrounds u...

A beautiful, illustrated exploration of European burial sites and memorials from the First and Second World Wars The wealth of splendid photography...

Monuments are all around us. We walk or drive past them every day, yet we are often only vaguely aware of their existence. They are in cemeteries a...

With nearly 600 years of history, involving plots, intrigue and paranormal activity, it is surprising that no one has ever before written the defin...

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the oldest museum dedicated to the Holocaust in the United States, recently opened its newly designed buil...

Where can you find a monument to an emasculated lion made from a mysterious ceramic or the figure of an 18th century radical thinker who was hounde...

Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subjec...

'A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself' Literary ReviewGraveyards are oases: places of escape, peace and reflection....

The ancient Egyptian tomb evolved rapidly over a period of about 2,500 years, from a simple backfilled pit to an enormous stone pyramid with comple...

This is the seventeenth volume in the series the Public Sculpture of Britain, part of the PMSA National Recording Project, which will eventually co...