Necropolis by Catharine Arnold6/9/2023 Implicitly entwined with the passing of generations is the transformation of an entire population where and how people live, where and how they die, and where their children move on to. London's greatest disasters, including the Great Fire and the Black Plague, are explored and analysed for their massive impacts on both the population and the change in the disposal of the dead, while the unusual resting places of several thousand Londoners are highlighted and studied, as a means of examining growth and city development. Utilising archaeology, anthropology, anecdote and history, Arnold explores the presence of death in people's lives and the developments and changes in mourning and burial through two millennia. It's an intriguing, occasionally dark, occasionally humorous journey that reaches right back to the Romans and concludes with the most recent display of mass public mourning: Princess Diana's funeral. But what about beneath it? What of it's history? It's mishaps? It's dead?Ĭatharine Arnold invites us on a gloriously macabre tour - across London's many graveyards, cemeteries and burial plots in a quest to discover whether what has departed can teach us anything about what is to come. A vast, labyrinthine, ever-moving place that shimmers as the jewel of Britain.
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