Centring the words of visitors to Crossbones graveyard in summer 2025, this short film explores why people choose to visit this unconsecrated burial ground, now a garden of remembrance, and their responses to the space. Using video, still images, site-recorded audio, and music, it is presented alongside a selection of tactile handmade objects to create a multi-sensory experience of place while considering the gendered narratives in the memorialisation of historically marginalised lives.
Kathryn Herschell 2026
University of St Andrews
Crossbones: Gender and ethnography in the graveyard of the outcast dead
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