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Four years of war and DT’s losses (and gains)

Russia’s war against Ukraine is now entering into its fifth year, after Tuesday’s fourth anniversary of the beginning of the aggression.
Here I will concentrate on how dark tourism (DT) has been affected, in particular what has been lost. It’s true that should this war finally be brought to an end and be followed by a stable peace, then Ukraine has the potential to add countless new destinations for dark tourists to visit. In a way that is

27 February 2026 No Comments

Dark Tourism & Shoes

This is the theme that came second in our latest poll. The winning theme, ‘DT & Shadows’, featured in the previous post, and in that I already announced that I would post the second ranked themes without a new poll. So now for ‘DT & Shoes’. By the way, I’m using “shoes” in a wide sense to include boots, trainers, stilettos, etc. as well as regular shoes.

What do you first think of when contemplating where shoes and dark tourism meet? For many people it will probably be this

6 July 2025 4 Comments

Dark Tourism & Clothing

As decided in the most recent poll, and announced on Monday, today we come to the theme “dark tourism and clothing”:

You could be forgiven if you think this is a really exotic theme within the wider subject of dark tourism. But items of clothing do actually come up quite often. And the ones featured below are only a selection.

Perhaps the most predictable case of clothes with a dark association is those iconic and infamous striped

28 October 2020 5 Comments