Zines and publications

Zines

an extract from the zine Sensing Crossbones bodies in place with text reading it s just me and the wind and the plants and the embroidered flag alongside images of the mizuko jiro statues of the graveyard
Sensing Crossbones: bodies in place
Over winter 2025–2026, a group of eight volunteers at Crossbones Graveyard were invited to take part in a journalling activity exploring community wellbeing. Guided by prompts inviting curiosity about the site through the senses and body awareness, volunteers reflected individually on their volunteering sessions. Together, they have generated a body of community research, tracking their interactions with the site through time. The individual contributions have been brought together in this zine, compiled during a collaborative collaging session. The project concluded with a participatory collage session to develop a community zine.

This project was generously funded by the Wellcome Trust [228089/Z/23/Z].



On Monday 25th July 2022, we were lucky to be joined at Crossbones by Jon Best, Southwark Council’s ecology officer. Together with community volunteers, we took part in a series of activities designed to celebrate and document the biodiversity of Crossbones Graveyard. Guided by Jon, we recorded a number of plants, pond invertebrates and insects found at Crossbones on that day. Our community volunteers creatively documented our finds, which you can view in the zine below.

This event was generously supported by the Natural History Museum’s Exploring Biodiversity Engagement fund.

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Community Biodiversity Day at Crossbones

a page from the zine Sedimenting the Archive showing collages with an image of the mizuko jiro from the graveyard
Sedimenting the Archive


This workshop was hosted collaboratively with Dr Lucy Coleman Talbot in August 2021. We brought together archaeological and sensory methods to ‘sediment’ an archive of Crossbones Graveyard: collaboratively building up layers of memory and meaning with the community. Attendees created artwork in response to prompts designed to activate different sensory registers, contributing their work to a collective archive, which Lucy and Hannah then collaged into a zine.

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Publications

the cover of the book Involuntary Attention as Creative Disruption Meeting the Urban Wild with Neurodivergent Strategies


Reeves, H. (2025). Involuntary Attention as Creative Disruption: Meeting the Urban Wild with Neurodivergent Strategies. In: Kinouani, G., Reeves, H., Di Gianfrancesco, C. (eds) Creative Disruption. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan.

This chapter discusses carrying out research at Crossbones Graveyard as a neurodivergent researcher, outlining the ‘open-field’ approach to auto/ethnography Hannah developed in response to Crossbones’ urban wild. It highlights non-verbal aspects of research as important modes of neurodivergent engagement, and argues that psychosocial studies has a responsibility to recognise the value of non-verbal knowledge practices if it is to meaningfully grapple with neurodiversity.


Reeves, H., 2022. Lessons from Crossbones Graveyard: a more-than-individuated ethics of care. Weather Matters Fall Series.

This short piece for Weather Matters condenses some key ideas of Hannah’s PhD research. It discusses Crossbones’ ethics of cultivation as a set of practices that fluidly encompass the responsibility of caring for the material and ecological components of the site. It frames the ethics of cultivation at the surface as an ethics of care for the dead below, arguing that these practices trouble entrenched Western notions of the individual.

a stone dragon from the graveyard illustrating Reeves 2022 work Lessons from Crossbones Graveyard a more than individuated ethics of care