Stories
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Euston’s lost burial ground
Closing St James’s Gardens for a new rail line required the largest exhumation in British history. Tom Bolton explores the stories of some of the people who were buried there.
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The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
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Dying to be in nature
The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.
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Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Burial of Galileo
Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)Date: c. 1642Reference: MS.294Part of: Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)- Archives and manuscripts
Burial of infants
Date: Mar-Oct 1958Reference: SA/NBT/M.9/3Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Books
Burial practice in early England / Alison Taylor.
Taylor, Alison, 1947-Date: 2001- Digital Images
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Burial scene prepresented in rock-painting, Zimbabwe.
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Burial scene prepresented in rock-painting, Zimbabwe.