Red Umbrellas

By Hannah Reeves / April 21, 2026

For more information on the grassroots campaign, visit the Friends of Crossbones at
crossbones.org.uk.

To keep up with Bankside Open Spaces Trust, who manage Crossbones Graveyard and Garden of Remembrance, visit
bost.org.uk.

You can also follow Crossbones Graveyard on
Instagram.

The PhD research on which this blog is based was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council under ESRC grant: ES/P000592/1. Further content, and improvements to the website were funded by the Wellcome Trust via Birkbeck, University of London’s Institutional Funding for Research Culture, with grant number 228089/Z/23/Z. Unless otherwise stated, copyright of written and visual content is held by Hannah Reeves.