This is a ‘Night at the Museum’ event organised by the Museum and Archive at Highgate School.
Highgate Cemetery is of world renown as a destination for the picturesque tourist. There is a long tradition in Britain of churchyards and monuments being popular destinations for sight-seeing. Not only did they embody history: they provided a moral experience for the living by bringing them close to the dead. This far-from-gloomy talk will look at tombs and their audience.
Roger is currently a heritage consultant with Montagu Evans, providing expert advice on historic environment matters, and he also teaches university students about British history and heritage. For many years he was Director of Listing for Historic England. He has a PhD from Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge on ‘Monuments of Decay and Resurrection – Images of Mortality on 17th Century Church Monuments’ and has written extensively on the topic of sepulchral art. He is a former Highgate parent.
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