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My Lectures

Brian Parsons is available to give the following presentations:



Other lectures are in preparation and enquiries for lectures on related subjects are welcome.


All lectures last 45/50 minutes and are accompanied by a Powerpoint presentation of many rarely seen images.


For further details please contact Brian Parsons

Email: info@brianparsons.org.uk

List of Lectures


Forthcoming Lectures

2023 Lectures

2022 Lectures

2021 Lectures

2020 Lectures

2019 Lectures

2018 Lectures

2017 Lectures

Earlier Lectures


Lectures in 2022

 

From Front Parlour to Funeral Parlour (with Dr Helen Frisby)

24 February 2022

British Association for Local History


Looking North: Looking Forward

19 March 2022

NAFD Yorkshire Education Day


The Cemeteries of South London

6 June 2022

Bromley Borough local History Society


A Look at London's Victorian Cemeteries

21 June 2022

The Victorian Society


Using Funeral Director's Records for Research

27 August 2022

The Society of Genealogists


The Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II

16 September 2022

University of Bath Centre for Death & Society online discussion


The Victorian Funeral

1 October 2022

Last Rights Conference, London


The Changing Face of Funeral Ceremonies: 1850-2022

15 October 2022

Association of Independent Celebrants


The Story of the Unknown Warrior

26 October 2022

Maldens and Coombe Heritage Society


Lectures in 2018


‘The History of Ayton Castle’, Ayton Local History Society, 20 January 2018.


‘Frederick W Paine: Serving the Community in War and Peace’, Hook Women’s Guild, 14 May 2018.


‘London and the Spanish Flu’, FW Paine Kingston, 17 July 2018.


‘The Cemeteries of South London’, North West Kent Family History Society, 18 August 2018.


‘Ayton Castle: Past, Present and Future’, Berwickshire Naturalists, 23 August 2018.


‘Go direct to the crematorium; do not pass through the chapel, pay £1,000 and collect the ashes’. Exploring the phenomenon of direct cremation. Death & Culture II, University of York, 6-7 September 2018.

 

‘Burying Enza - London and the Spanish Flu’, FW Paine Kingston, 27 September 2018.

 

‘Frederick W Paine and the Changing Face of Funerals’, Borough of Twickenham Local History Society, 1 October 2018.

 

‘Frederick W Paine: Serving the Community in War and Peace’, Molesey & District Antiques Society, 2 October 2018.

 


Lectures in 2019


‘The History of Ayton Castle’, Ayton Local History Society, 30 January 2019.


‘London and the Spanish Flu’, Society of Genealogists, 14 February 2019


‘Funeral Directors’ Records’ (and history of F W Paine), Society of Genealogists, 14 March 2019

 

‘The Changing Face of Funerals in South London’, Barnes & Mortlake History Society, 21 March 2019


‘London and the Spanish Flu’, Society of Genealogists, 14 February 2019


‘Funeral Directors’ Records (and history of F W Paine)’, Society of Genealogists, 14 March 2019

 

‘The Changing Face of Funerals in South London’ Barnes & Mortlake History Society, 21 March 2019


‘The Cemeteries of South London, F W Paine, Kingston, 14 May 2019


‘A Very English Building: The Cemetery Chapel’, Great Gardens of Death: Victorian Society Conference on Cemeteries, 18 May 2019


‘From Undertaker to Funeral Director: Organisational Change in the British Funeral Industry‘ Presentation given to the Competition and Markets Authority, 16 July 2019


‘The Changing Face of Funerals in London’, Westminster Archive Centre, 31 October 2019


‘Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory: Anglo-Catholics and their Funerals’, Lecture for the Friends of St Cuthbert’s Church Earl’s Court, 4 November 2019


Lectures in 2020


‘The Cemeteries of South London’, North West Kent Family History Society, 1 February 2020



Postponed Lectures (due to COVID-19)


‘The Cemeteries of London’, Monuments and Mausolea Trust, 31 March 2020

 

‘Using funeral and burial records for research and genealogy’, Society of Genealogists, 4 June 2020


‘Writers on Embalming’, British Institute of Embalmers (Midlands Division),

27 June 2020



Lectures in 2021


‘Words on Embalming’, British Institute of Embalmers (Midlands Division), 14 July 2021


‘Words on Embalming’, British Institute of Embalmers (North East Division),

23 September 2021


‘The Changing Face of Funerals in London’, JH Kenyon, 7 October 2021


‘The Cemeteries of South London’, The Pavilion Group, Sidcup, 12 November 2021


‘Reading 'The Order for the Burial of the Dead'. Investigating the role of the cemetery chaplain’, 21st Annual Cemeteries Colloquium, 19 November 2021


‘Reading 'The Order for the Burial of the Dead'. Investigating the role of the cemetery chaplain’, Ecclesiastical History Society Conference, 15 January 2022


Forthcoming Lectures


Sunday 21 July 2024

A Look at London’s Cemeteries

F W Paine Funeral Directors, Kingston


Saturday 3 August 2024

Using Funeral Directors’ and Burial Records for Research

North West Kent Family History Society


Wednesday 25 September 2024

A Look at the Cemeteries of South London

Maldens & Coombe History Society


Wednesday 9 October 2024

The Victorian Funeral in London

The Friends of Putney Library


Thursday 28 November 2024

The Victorian Funeral

Society of Genealogists

Online Presentation


2025


Friday 16 May 2025

A Look at London’s Cemeteries

Dartford Historical Society




Lectures in 2023

 

London's Cemeteries

Society of Genealogists

Online presentation

11 November 2023

11.30am


London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer

The Friends of West Norwood Cemetery

21 October 2023

2.30pm


A Look at the Cemeteries of London

Funerals, Burial Grounds and Cemeteries

7 October 2023

Southwark Cathedral


The Cemeteries of South London

5 September 2023

Lambormey and Sidcup Local History Society


The Victorian Funeral

13 June 2023

FW Paine Kingston