Stories
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Death around the world in ten objects
Death is many things to many cultures: violent, holy, frightening, calm, disgusting... or just a gateway to another life.
- Article
Graveyards as green getaways
Stressed city dwellers have been visiting cemeteries in greater numbers since the start of the pandemic. Discover how, despite the constant reminders of death, graveyards bring visitors a sense of renewal.
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How we bury our children
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
Catalogue
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Cemeteries reveal early tuberculosis / Norman Hammond.
Hammond, Norman.Date: 1990- Books
Cemeteries : rules of management / [Council of the] City of Sheffield.
Date: [1970?]- Books
Cemeteries of the Church and Priory of St. Andrew, Fishergate / by G. Stroud and R.L. Kemp.
Stroud, G.Date: 1993
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Cemeteries : as receptacles for the dead, and principally as places for health, recreation, meditation, and pleasure, and as substitutes for parks ; Wills or testaments : with the proper distribution of these to females, who are frequently left too little, and are less cared for than sons ; Potatoes : as an article of food, and in a political point of view, their cultivation, growth, and improvement, and the causes of disease, and means of preventing it / by John Moodie.
Moodie, John.Date: 1848- Videos
Great cemeteries of the world. Pt. 24, London - Kensal Green.
Date: 2002