British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

This week's blog marks the International Day of Peace 2019 and Gandhi's 150th anniversary by remembering  a friend and colleague of Gandhi in our collections The United Nations International Day of Peace  takes place each year on 21 September to celebrate a  peaceful society is one where there  is  justice and equality for everyone. The theme for  2019 is: “Climate Action for Peace”.  The United Nations Member States adopted   17 Sustainable Development Goals   in 2015 to ensure peace through the protection of human rights for all. The Sustainable Goals include poverty, hunger, health, education, climate change, gender equality, water, sanitation, energy, environment and social justice.   Sustainable Development Goal 13 “ Climate Action ” is a call for immediate action by all to lower greenhouse emissions, build resilience and improve education on climate change.   Today highlights the importance of combating climate chan...

This week Deceased Online will launch a new collection of burial and cemetery records from Blackburn & Darwen in Lancashire. Here I look at the history of Blackburn and the background to lives of many who are remembered in the burial registers. I grew up in rural Lancashire, about 30 miles away from the heartland of the former cotton industry that is Blackburn and Darwen. Although there were a few mills around the area in which I lived, they were nothing compared with the vast numbers of mills and factories that emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries in Blackburn, Darwen and their near neighbours, Preston and Burnley. Like Blackburn, my village lay in the shadow of the brooding Pennine hills and our grass was bright green from regular rainfalls. Jubilee Tower, Darwen (c) John Darch Today, Blackburn is remembered as "Cotton Town", a name that lives on in an excellent local history project: http://www.cottontown.org/Pages/default.aspx  The origins of the town's ...