Highgate was the second private cemetery in London, opened under a Parliamentary Act in 1832. This new legislation aimed to address the issue of limited space in small church cemeteries ...

Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust has submitted plans for an £18 million transformation of the graveyard, where figures including Karl Marx and George Michael are buried, with new visitor facilities ...

The Transport for London-funded proposal would have ... from Kentish Town to Archway and north to Highgate village. Highgate cemetery and the Whittington hospital would have fallen within the ...

Hanging Bear Media/ Shutterstock In the cold, dark corners of the Victorian vaults in Highgate Cemetery London, lives a rare spider. Having found itself this safe, quiet urban refuge, the orb-weaving ...

How we’re remembered is a strange and controversial business. Ralph Jones meets the people rewriting the rules, one grave ...

CROWDS at Karl Marx’s Highgate Cemetery tomb gave three cheers for communism today following the 2025 Marx Oration. The event, which traces its history back to Friedrich Engels’s address by the ...

Hundreds of people have demanded a ban on barbecues in a park after "massive events" resulted in fights and defecating in the bushes.