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April Miscellany

April Miscellany

Prisoner graffiti, Tower of London
Prisoner graffiti, Tower of London

Upcoming Events

Making Your Mark 2020 graffiti symposium is announced with a call for papers

Brian Hoggard has an online talk on Magical House Protection on 15th May  at 6pm.

Opportunities for graffiti survey at Flamstead church, Hertfordshire

Items of Interest

100 year old drawings found on school blackboard 

Sandstone Cave near Guildford has graffiti  

World War 1 graffiti in Wiltshire.

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Signet Library in Westminster has the chalk and pencil graffiti of craftspeople who worked there.

Soviet soldier graffiti on trees around Berlin 

Graffiti in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

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Useful Links

A Church Near You

Apotropaios

Britain Express

The Churches Conservation Trust

Darkness Below

East Sussex Medieval Graffiti Survey

English Heritage

Essex Churches

Hampshire Churches Medieval Graffiti Survey

The National Trust

Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey

Suffolk Medieval Graffiti Survey

Wiltshire Medieval Graffiti Survey

Worcestershire Historic Graffiti Project

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