A small urban park with benches and people sitting, a fountain, and flower beds, surrounded by tall buildings and leafless trees.

The Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice

It’s a lean-to made of wood and tiles. But the Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice is one of the most moving monuments to memory you’ll ever come across

Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances

Join us as we leave the studio and venture out into wintery London to find out about this fascinating place. It’s Victorian, but not as you know it – there’s no pomp, there’s no circumstance. Instead, this is a memorial to ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

The artist and sculptor Ian Wolter a leads us through the complex world of memorialisation and remembrance as we learn about the man behind the Memorial, the people on it and what it teaches us about memory today.