DrHelenFrisby

Using #ThesisBootCamp methodology to write new book on #VictorianFunerals - @DrPetaFreestone you've changed my writing life! 3582 words in two days!

Eat Your Sorrow With These Victorian Funeral Biscuits @atlasobscura atlasobscura.com/articles/funer…

4. Touching a dead body stopped the person haunting you historyhit.com/funerary-super…

I'll be out and about talking about Traditions of Death and Burial in 2020: @U3A_UK Thornbury 17 January & Nailsea 25 August, also Westbury Family History Society @HeritageWSHC 26 March.

@david_castleton Look out for Shire's 'Traditions of Death and Burial' coming in September. Helen Frisby relates other such traditions, such as covering mirrors and ringing the 'passing bell'

@SallyBadham @Shire_Editor @david_castleton Hope you enjoy it Sally!

@Shire_Editor @david_castleton Just up my street. I have put it on pre-order.

"The soul cannot free itself if a dying person lies on a bed of pigeon feathers … there are instances of pigeon feathers being thrust under dying persons to hold them back until the arrival of some loved one" '#Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of #Yorkshire' (1911) #Gothic