Stories
- Article
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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A graveyard of plants for the people I love
Searching for her own ceremony to acknowledge the passing of her grandmother, Jennifer Neal turned to plants. The ritual she created was personal and loving, and celebrated life as well as acknowledging loss.
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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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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
[Funeral]
Date: 1936Reference: WA/HSW/PH/A.14Part of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)- Audio
Funeral sentences.
Date: 2005- Archives and manuscripts
Funeral Decorations
Date: 2015Reference: PP/KZR/G/4Part of: The archive of Sheila Kitzinger (1929-2015)- Archives and manuscripts
Funeral service programme
Date: 26 Aug 1948Reference: GC/236/A/15Part of: Paget, Dame Rosalind (1855-1948)- Books
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Funeral hymns.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Date: 1769