If you could time-travel back to London in, say, the mid-1850s, you might find yourself strolling in Highgate Cemetery, taking in what had become a cutting-edge showpiece of the Victorian sensibility.

The north London graveyard, a popular tourist spot for fans of the communist pioneer, will erect new graves after securing £100,000 of National Lottery Heritage funding to help its conservation work ...

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This is a lively place, with shops garlanding High Street, and clusters of Georgian and Victorian houses. But it isn't the life of Highgate that fascinates visitors. It's the dead. The 37 acres of ...

Highgate Cemetery will make room for new graves near Karl Marx’s tomb and charge £25,000 for each one. The working cemetery and north London tourist site has secured £100,000 of National Lottery ...

Highgate Cemetery was one of seven cemeteries built in London around 1839, after Victorians realized burial conditions had become intolerable due to overcrowding. The population of London had almost ...

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Perched on a steep hillside peering down at central London, a Victorian graveyard, Highgate Cemetery, provides clues to long ago lives and is still in use today.Credit... Supported by Highgate ...

There’s big news from beyond the grave. Plans to refurbish one of London’s most hauntingly beautiful landmarks have officially been approved. Highgate Cemetery, arguably the city’s most famous resting ...