Download or read book The War Dead of Hull General Cemetery written by Bill Longbone and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War changed the world but at what cost in human lives. The loss of life during the conflict was tremendous and unprecedented. This book focuses on how the Allies dealt with the problem of disposing of the dead, both nationally,and locally in Hull, during this period. It examines the problem of war time burial at the front, the formation of the Imperial War Graves Commission and the problems that it faced in applying the principle of equality to the fallen. It also discusses the mass outpouring of public grief that culminated in the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior and the Cenotaph. It explains the creation of the typical war grave headstone and why it was designed in this way.The burial of the war dead in Hull General Cemetery, and the later removal of the war grave headstones, is fully explained and the story behind all the servicemen who lost their lives in the Great War and who have a link with Hull General Cemetery is recounted in detail with a number of rare images and personal documents of the fallen soldiers and sailors that brings their, often short, lives back into the light.
Download or read book Hull General Cemetery 1847 1972 a Short Introduction written by Bill Longbone and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a short introduction to the general reader who has an interest towards the more neglected parts of history. The story of Hull General Cemetery, the first and only private cemetery that existed in Hull will be fascinating to those interested in the Victorian period. The cemetery was opened in the 1840s and continued to function as a cemetery up to the 1970s. It is the story of how some far-sighted entrepreneurs in Victorian Hull struggled to solve one of the worst problems of the period, namely, how to dispose of the town's dead in a decent and dignified way. However, those entrepreneurs, in tune with those times, still looked upon this venture with the decided aim to make a profit from providing this public service and saw no problem with this dual purpose. The book outlines this dichotomy and records how the Hull General Cemetery Company strived to square this circle ultimately failing.The book also provides a number of pen pictures of some of the notables who are buried in the cemetery. Notables who were instrumental in the development of Hull during this period when it went from a town to a city, from a port whose trade was centred upon whaling and trading with its old Hanseatic links in Northern Europe to the third largest port in the United Kingdom with trade links throughout the world. Names such as John Gravill, master of the ill-fated Diana, one of the last whalers to sail from Hull. Thomas Earle, the noted sculptor, who's statues of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert still grace Pearson Park. And of course, Zachariah Pearson's own humble headstone that stands amongst the much grander monuments and obelisks of his contemporaries.Complete with many rare images of historical importance, the book also contains a large number of original images taken by the authors. It provides a welcome addition to a much-neglected part of the story of Victorian Hull. The book offers, to both the local historian and to someone who's just intrigued by this area of woodland within the city, a chance to learn more about the Hull General Cemetery Company before they visit this haunting yet magical site themselves.
Download or read book Public Graves Workhouse Graves Catacombs and Crosses written by Bill Longbone and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the third in a series that will examine the development and life of Hull General Cemetery. The series will look at the many facets of this intriguing site; its history, management, social aspects, finances and much more. It will also explore the lives and history of some of the more important inhabitants of the site. Utilising documents and archive material that has never been seen in public before it is hoped that the series will be a useful tool for both the student and local historian not only of this site but for the Victorian Cemetery in general. It is hoped that it will be of use to the family historian too.This volume examines the concept of the public grave and how it was not simply the preserve of the pauper but offered a decent burial to a much wider proportion of the town's population than is generally thought. The relationships that the Cemetery enjoyed with the two local Workhouses during its life, the strains within these relationships, and how the economy of the Cemetery relied upon these relationships is explored. The extent of the burials from the Workhouses are quantified. Finally, two aspects of the Cemetery are explored. The catacombs of the Cemetery are examined. Their design, purpose, occupants and eventual fate are discussed. The Eleanor crosses that adorn three of the graves in the Cemetery are discussed and their inception, makers and which graves they stand upon is outlined along with the personal stories that prompted their erection.
Download or read book The War of 1812 written by Bud Hannings and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the American Revolution ended in 1783, tensions between the United States and Britain over disruptions to American trade, the impressment of American merchant sailors by British ships, and British support of Native American resistance to American expansion erupted in another military conflict nearly three decades later. Scarcely remembered in England today, the War of 1812 stood as a veritable "second war of independence" to the victorious Americans and ushered in an extended period of peaceful relations and trade between the United States and Britain. This major reference work offers a comprehensive day-by-day chronology of the War of 1812, including its slow build-up and aftermath, and provides detailed biographies of the generals who made their marks.
Download or read book Hull General Cemetery Spring Bank Cemetery Including the Quaker Burial Ground Monumental Inscriptions written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Deed of Settlement of the Hull General Cemetery Company written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hull General Cemetery Spring Bank Cemetery written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Honoring the Civil War Dead written by John R. Neff and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2005-02-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the Civil War, fatalities from that conflict had far exceeded previous American experience, devastating families and communities alike. As John Neff shows, commemorating the 620,000 lives lost proved to be a persistent obstacle to the hard work of reuniting the nation, as every memorial observation compelled painful recollections of the war. Neff contends that the significance of the Civil War dead has been largely overlooked and that the literature on the war has so far failed to note how commemorations of the dead provide a means for both expressing lingering animosities and discouraging reconciliation. Commemoration--from private mourning to the often extravagant public remembrances exemplified in cemeteries, monuments, and Memorial Day observances--provided Americans the quintessential forum for engaging the war’s meaning. Additionally, Neff suggests a special significance for the ways in which the commemoration of the dead shaped Northern memory. In his estimation, Northerners were just as active in myth-making after the war. Crafting a “Cause Victorious” myth that was every bit as resonant and powerful as the much better-known “Lost Cause” myth cherished by Southerners, the North asserted through commemorations the existence of a loyal and reunified nation long before it was actually a fact. Neff reveals that as Northerners and Southerners honored their separate dead, they did so in ways that underscore the limits of reconciliation between Union and Confederate veterans, whose mutual animosities lingered for many decades after the end of the war. Ultimately, Neff argues that the process of reunion and reconciliation that has been so much the focus of recent literature either neglects or dismisses the persistent reluctance of both Northerners and Southerners to “forgive and forget,” especially where their war dead were concerned. Despite reunification, the continuing imperative of commemoration reflects a more complex resolution to the war than is even now apparent. His book provides a compelling account of this conflict that marks a major contribution to our understanding of the war and its many meanings.
Download or read book Minutes of Proceedings written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Graves Registration Service in World War II written by Edward Steere and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Hull General Cemetery Lodge and Other Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth book in the Hull General Cemetery series. It contains four articles on a number of subjects related to the Hull General Cemetery. We follow in the footsteps of John Symons, a local antiquarian of the 19th century, who wrote of a walk in there in 1889. The article regarding the Hull General Cemetery Lodge has never been published anywhere before. The story of why and how the cemetery was created is bookended by why and how it suffered a great deal of destruction in the 1970s in the name of redevelopment. It's hoped that this assemblage of articles will give the reader some pleasure and answer some questions they didn't know they had about Hull General Cemetery.
Download or read book Heritage of Death written by Mattias Frihammar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, death is being reconceptualised around the world as heritage, replete with material markers and intangible performances. These heritages of death are personal, national and international. They are vernacular as well as official, sanctioned as well as alternative. This book brings together more than twenty international scholars to consider the heritage of death from spatial, political, religious, economic, cultural, aesthetic and emotive aspects. It showcases different attitudes and phases of death and their relationship to heritage through ethnographically informed case studies to illustrate both general patterns and local and national variations. Through analyses of material expressions and social practices of grief, mourning and remembrance, this book shows not only what death means in contemporary societies, but also how individuals, groups and nations act towards death.
Download or read book Civilian War Dead Kingston Upon Hull 1939 1945 written by Imperial War Graves Commission and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hull Spring Bank General Cemetery written by East Yorkshire Family History Society and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hull General Cemetery Spring Bank Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions written by East Yorkshire Family History Society and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death in England written by Peter C. Jupp and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a social history of death from the earliest times to Diana, Princess of Wales. As we discard the 20th century taboo about death, this book charts the story of the way in which our forebears coped with aspects of their daily lives.
Download or read book The War Dead of the Commonwealth written by Commonwealth War Graves Commission and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
