Necropolis: London and Its Dead

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Intro; Author biography; Further praise for Necropolis; Title page; Copyright page; Picture credits; Dedication page; Contents; Map; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A Pagan Place: Celtic Golgotha and the Roman Cemeteries; 2 Danse Macabre: London and the Black Death; 3 Memento Mori: The Theatre of Death; 4 Pestilence: Diary of a Plague Year; 5 Et in Arcadia Ego: A Vision of Elysian Fields; 6 Gatherings from Graveyards: The Dead are Killing the Living; 7 Victorian Valhallas: The Development of London's Cemeteries; 8 Great Gardens of Sleep: Death Moves to the Suburbs Intro Author biography Further praise for Necropolis Title page Copyright page Picture credits Dedication page Contents Map Acknowledgements Introduction 1 A Pagan Place: Celtic Golgotha and the Roman Cemeteries 2 Danse Macabre: London and the Black Death 3 Memento Mori: The Theatre of Death 4 Pestilence: Diary of a Plague Year 5 Et in Arcadia Ego: A Vision of Elysian Fields 6 Gatherings from Graveyards: The Dead are Killing the Living 7 Victorian Valhallas: The Development of London's Cemeteries 8 Great Gardens of Sleep: Death Moves to the Suburbs 9 The People Who Invented Death: The Victorian Funeral10 The Vale of Tears: The Victorian Cult of Mourning 11 Up in Smoke: The Development of Cremation 12 Our Darkest Hours: World War and the Decline of Mourning Notes Bibliography Index