Tourism between graves: when cemeteries are the new museums

2023-08-19 19:06:00
Any given day in North London. The tube spits out a group of tourists at the Archway stop and, a short walk and ten pounds later, the ritual begins. Plan in hand, everyone to follow the dots marked on the map. As if it were a museum. Only it is not. Or maybe yes. To the east, the ‘celebrities’. Karl Marx, Malcolm McLaren, Douglas Adams, Alan Sillitoe, Bert Jansch. Also George Michael, although his name does not appear anywhere at the express wish of his family. To the west, Victorian Valhalla: the catacombs, Egyptian Avenue and the Highgate vampire. Yes, the vampire: in the sixties, a case of desecrated graves and supposed vampire apparitions… See More
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