"memorials" blog posts

Memorialising Covid-19LCF blog post

Memorialising Covid-19

Two Liverpool students have just completed work worked on an Undergraduate Research Scheme project, led by Professor Anna Saunders, entitled ‘Covid-19 and the Memorial Landscape’. The project investigated the numerous different ways in which Covid-19 is being remembered in memorial form across the globe. Matthew Griffiths reflects here on his experience of the project and presents the central findings, while Xiaoyu Hua brings some of the key projects together into a vlog.

Posted on: 10 October 2022

Monuments and memorials: how should a city acknowledge its past? Wreath laying by descendants of the enslaved

Monuments and memorials: how should a city acknowledge its past?

Modern Languages and Cultures postgraduate student Rudi Hart talks about their time in the Netherlands whilst researching for their master's degree, the importance of monuments and memorials in cities and acknowledging the past.

Posted on: 1 October 2020