London Month of the Dead - To Be or Not To Be

TO BE, OR NOT TO BE The History of Suicide with David Lederer At the Dissenters Chapel on Saturday 28th October 2017 from 1:00 pm In the Middle Ages, self-killing became a punishable offense. Decriminalised throughout the continent by the Enlightenment, it remained illegal in England until 1961 and in Ireland until 1993. Periodicals like the Illustrated Police News catered to macabre Victorian prurience, offering up scandalously titillating images of the gritty urban environs of Dickensian London. And yet, in other places, at other times or under peculiar circumstances, self-sacrifice is revered as martyrdom. Euthanasia today confronts us with compelling questions about the quality and meaning of life. So what is suicide, really? David Lederer’s talk will offer clues into ancient, modern and global sensitivities toward voluntary self-destruction across the planet. Tickets £12 including a Hendrick's gin cocktail. Please click here to buy. DR. DAVID LEDERER Dr. David Lederer is Senior Lecturer at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, where he teaches early modern European history. Germany is his geographic speciality and his interests include the histories of psychiatry, suicide and Catholic priests who had sex during the Counter-Reformation. Dr Lederer has authored over 30 articles and his monograph, Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2006) received the Gerald Strauss prize for best book on Reformation history. Travel advice to the Dissenters' Chapel - During the day guests can walk through the cemetery to get to the chapel but at night the main cemetery gates on the Harrow Road will be closed and the only accessible entrance is on Ladbroke Grove. Previously the address for this entrance was 364 Ladbroke Grove but this number has now been updated to 391. The two closest underground stations are Ladbroke Grove (Hammersmith & City or Circle Line) or Kensal Green (overground and Bakerloo Line). From Ladbroke Grove station there are several buses you can take to the Dissenters which include either the 28, 52 or 452. It's best to get off at the Sainbury's bus stop and then it's a short walk down Ladbroke Grove to the entrance to the Dissenters' Chapel.

TO BE, OR NOT TO BE
The History of Suicide with David Lederer
At the Dissenters Chapel on Saturday 28th October 2017 from 1:00 pm

In the Middle Ages, self-killing became a punishable offense. Decriminalised throughout the continent by the Enlightenment, it remained illegal in England until 1961 and in Ireland until 1993. Periodicals like the Illustrated Police News catered to macabre Victorian prurience, offering up scandalously titillating images of the gritty urban environs of Dickensian London. And yet, in other places, at other times or under peculiar circumstances, self-sacrifice is revered as martyrdom. Euthanasia today confronts us with compelling questions about the quality and meaning of life.

So what is suicide, really? David Lederer’s talk will offer clues into ancient, modern and global sensitivities toward voluntary self-destruction across the planet.

Tickets £12 including a Hendrick's gin cocktail. Please click here to buy.

DR. DAVID LEDERER
Dr. David Lederer is Senior Lecturer at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, where he teaches early modern European history. Germany is his geographic speciality and his interests include the histories of psychiatry, suicide and Catholic priests who had sex during the Counter-Reformation. Dr Lederer has authored over 30 articles and his monograph, Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2006) received the Gerald Strauss prize for best book on Reformation history.

Travel advice to the Dissenters' Chapel - During the day guests can walk through the cemetery to get to the chapel but at night the main cemetery gates on the Harrow Road will be closed and the only accessible entrance is on Ladbroke Grove. Previously the address for this entrance was 364 Ladbroke Grove but this number has now been updated to 391.

The two closest underground stations are Ladbroke Grove (Hammersmith & City or Circle Line) or Kensal Green (overground and Bakerloo Line). From Ladbroke Grove station there are several buses you can take to the Dissenters which include either the 28, 52 or 452. It's best to get off at the Sainbury's bus stop and then it's a short walk down Ladbroke Grove to the entrance to the Dissenters' Chapel.

The Dissenters' Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Ticket includes tour of the catacombs.

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