Waking the Dead - Oral History by Octavia Foundation published on 2017-02-08T15:50:50Z Funded by £76,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Waking the Dead focuses on the fascinating history of Kensal Green Cemetery and the local community surrounding it. Kensal Green Cemetery, or ‘All Souls’ as it is also known, is a treasure trove of local and global history. It is the final resting place of a diverse mix of characters that reads like a Who’s Who of times gone by, including Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Wilkie Collins, Harold Pinter, Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Freddie Mercury, as well as relatives of Queen Victoria, Churchill, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde. Listen to the first set of our oral histories and be guided local, national and international history of Kensal Green Cemetery Genre Oral History
