Stories
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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.
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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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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.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
Catalogue
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Coffins File
Date: 1922Reference: RET 4/3/3/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Digital Images
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Crypt of Bow Church, London - A London Fever Still. (Coffins in Crypt).
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Coffin's botanical journal and medical reformer.
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Antiquities found in stone coffins in Chichester Cathedral, including silver chalices and gold rings. Engraving by Thomas King, 1830.
King, Thomas, active 1826-1846.Date: 1830Reference: 46837i- Books
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Improvements in metal coffins / [Max Hüttenmüller].
Hüttenmüller, Max.Date: 1893