Stories
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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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Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack
Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
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Victims of Ireland's great famine : the bioarchaeology of mass burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse / Jonny Geber ; Foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.
Geber, JonnyDate: [2015]- Books
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Proceedings of the town of Charlestown, in the county of Middlesex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts; in respectful testimony of the distinguished talents and preeminent virtues of the late George Washington. January. M,DCC.
Charlestown (Mass.)Date: January. M,DCCC. [1800]- Books
Destruction and human remains : disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence / edited by Elisabeth Anstett & Jean-Marc Dreyfus.
Date: 2014- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001929: Reproduction of an illustration captioned "The plague in Marseilles in 1720. The scene shows convicts disposing of the dead by throwing the bodies into the bastions of the sea wall
Date: May 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/15Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Human remains and mass violence : methodological approaches / Jean-Marc Dreyfus & Élisbeth Anstett.
Date: 2015