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'Lady Constantia' at Scarcliffe: photo Tim Sutton

Stories from Stones

By CMS in Heritage

The Monument of the Month archive has examples of the stories people tell about tomb carvings - and there are more. But what do we do about these cherieshed local legends?

Bedlam war memorial general view

Remembering War

By CMS in War memorials

In this centenary year we have been focussing in our Monument of the Month series on war memorials and memorials to individual soldiers from the First World War. Remembering and commemorating war is difficult. How do we commemorate without glorifying?

St Olave Hart St Sir James Deane

Annual General Meeting

By CMS in CMS news

The 2018 Annual General Meeting of the Church Monuments Society will be held at 2.00pm on Saturday, 22nd September 2018 at St Olave, Hart Street, London EC3R 7NB.

Order a past-printed publication

Click here for details on how to order back-issues of our journal for just £5 per volume (£7.50 for non-members).

Journal and newsletter indexes

Here you can access a full index of content from our journals dating back to 1985 and our newsletters dating back to 1979.

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How to contribute

We welcome contributions on a range of topics related to monuments and commemoration. Initial enquiries about substantial articles for possible publication in the Journal should be sent to the Editor. Shorter articles and news items can be published in the Newsletter. We also welcome less formal contributions for Monument of the Month and the Blog.

Additional guides on submissions, copyright and publishing online can be found in this section.