Last week when I arrived back from holidays my copy of A Grave Look at History - Glimpses of a Vanishing Form of Folk Art by Lionel Gilbert had arrived from AbeBooks . I am a frequent visitor to AbeBooks both for work and my genealogy research. For those who are not familiar with AbeBooks it is a fantastic source for used, rare and out of print books. Wikipedia states that AbeBooks lists books from 12800 booksellers in 57 countries. I often purchase books for my school library for students who are completing individual research projects, particularly in history. My latest purchase is a book I remember looking at years ago - A Grave Look at History - Lionel Gilbert (1980) ( NLA catalogue ). Of particular interest are the chapters titled, Styles Symbols and Skills, Letters and Figures, Epitaphs and Rails and Pickets. What clues can you interpret from your family headstones? The Victorians loved symbolism and many headstones in our cemeteries have many symbols in th...