This dissertation provides a study of Henry VII's almshouse at Westminster Abbey from its foundation, c.1500, throughout the Dissolutions of the sixteenth century, up to the Elizabethan Reformation; a period covering just over a hundred years. The almshouse was built in conjunct…
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This practice-led research project explores English and French sentimental jewellery of the Victorian period. ‘Sentimental jewellery’ or ‘message jewellery’ denotes jewellery created to function as a tangible expression of feeling between donor and recipient, mediated through co…
In the context of totalitarian regimes and their aftermaths, memorial landscapes are highly contested spaces in which newly emerging governments are quite active in framing and reframing the past as well as mapping a course for the future. Unsurprisingly, statuary and other over…
This dissertation investigates the concept of cultural routes, how they are planned, designed and developed as a unique type of landscape-based memorial/narrative project, and, as they ultimately present a possibility of travel, what sort of experience in mobility they afford a …
The subject of my research is influenced by the social conditions imposed by the COVID-19 environment. I investigate how to increase contact with relatives and commemorate life when a funeral is not allowed because of the pandemic. How to mourn for loved ones when relatives are …
Since its beginning, the Church has marked the joys and sorrows of life through ritual observance. Coming together in times of individual and community trauma can help create a path to wholeness. As people in the United States continue to disaffiliate from organized religion, th…