Stories
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Keeping death close
Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.
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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
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Death in early America : the history and folklore of customs and superstitions of early medicine, funerals, burials, and mourning / by Margaret M. Coffin.
Coffin, Margaret.Date: [1976], ©1976
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A group of Greek women lamenting and mourning the dead at a burial site in Rama. Engraving possibly by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Reference: 44226i
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A woman. Oil painting.
Reference: 45828i- Pictures
A young woman without arms, wearing mourning dress. Photograph by C.H. Deakin, ca. 1890.
Deakin, C. H.Date: [1890?]Reference: 668724i
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A young woman wearing a veil and black clothing mourning at a tombstone, with her dog attending on her. Mezzotint by H. Quilley after a painting by C. Hancock, 1836.
Hancock, Charles, 1802-1877.Date: 20 May 1836Reference: 44378i