London City Of The Dead

Author : David Brandon,Alan Brooke
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803991634

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London: City of the Dead by David Brandon,Alan Brooke Pdf

London: City of the Dead is a groundbreaking account of London's dealing with death, covering the afterlife, execution, bodysnatching, murder, fatal disease, spiritualism, bizarre deaths and cemeteries. Taking the reader from Roman London to the 'glorious dead' of the First World War, this is the first systematic look at London's culture of death, with analysis of its customs and superstitions, rituals and representations. The authors of the celebrated London: The Executioner's City (Sutton, 2006) weave their way through the streets of London once again, this time combining some of the capital's most curious features, such as London's Necropolis Railway and Brookwood Cemetery, with the culture of death exposed in the works of great writers such as Dickens. The book captures for the first time a side of the city that has always been every bit as fascinating and colourful as other better known aspects of the metropolis. It shows London in all its moods - serious, comic, tragic and heroic-and celebrates its robust acceptance of the only certainty in life.

Author : James Ponti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781665911580

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City of the Dead by James Ponti Pdf

When hackers target locations all over London, Kat leads the City Spies in testing security for the British Museum where a secret message leads them to Egypt and the ancient City of the Dead.

Author : Daniel Blake
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439197622

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City of the Dead by Daniel Blake Pdf

Fate has lead Pittsburgh detective Franco Patrese to New Orleans and onto the trail of another serial killer.

Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763680541

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Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson Pdf

A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony. In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history—almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943–1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family pets and—eventually—one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens—the Leningrad Symphony, which came to occupy a surprising place of prominence in the eventual Allied victory. This is the true story of a city under siege: the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds. It is also a look at the power—and layered meaning—of music in beleaguered lives. Symphony for the City of the Dead is a masterwork thrillingly told and impeccably researched by National Book Award–winning author M. T. Anderson.

Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781786732408

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The Dead City by Paul Dobraszczyk Pdf

The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example, urban ruin and decay are a challenge to capitalist narratives of unbounded progress. They can equally imply that power structures thought to be deeply ingrained are temporary, contingent and even fragile. Examining ruins in Chernobyl, Detroit, London, Manchester and Varosha, this book demonstrates that how we discuss and depict urban decline is intimately connected to the histories, economic forces, power structures and communities of a given city, as well as to conflicting visions for its future.

Author : Vanessa Harding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521811260

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The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670 by Vanessa Harding Pdf

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Author : Will Self
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408838471

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The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self Pdf

The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane and the insane ... The Quantity Theory of Insanity is acerbic, satirical, hilarious and, most of all, utterly unique in imaginative vision.

Author : Catharine Arnold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847394934

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Necropolis by Catharine Arnold Pdf

From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement -- including more recent trends to displays of collective grief and the cult of mourning, such as that surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales -- NECROPOLIS: LONDON AND ITS DEAD offers a vivid historical narrative of this great city's attitude to going the way of all flesh. As layer upon layer of London soil reveals burials from pre-historic and medieval times, the city is revealed as one giant grave, filled with the remains of previous eras -- pagan, Roman, medieval, Victorian. This fascinating blend of archaeology, architecture and anecdote includes such phenomena as the rise of the undertaking trade and the pageantry of state funerals; public executions and bodysnatching. Ghoulishly entertaining and full of fascinating nuggets of information, Necropolis leaves no headstone unturned in its exploration of our changing attitudes to the deceased among us. Both anecdotal history and cultural commentary, Necropolis will take its place alongside classics of the city such as Peter Ackroyd's LONDON.

Author : Mark Davis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445635064

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Necropolis City of the Dead by Mark Davis Pdf

A fascinating history of Undercliffe Victorian Cemetery - 'works of art', created as much for the living as they were for the dead.

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112106250647

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The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, Anno 1761 [continued to 1806]. By Danby Pickering by Great Britain Pdf

Author : Lorraine Evans
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526706690

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Burying the Dead by Lorraine Evans Pdf

An archeological study of burial grounds across England, shedding light on pagan executions, the Black Death, and much more. In the heart of North Yorkshire, at a place called Walkington Wold, archeologists unearthed twelve skeletons—ten without heads. Later examination revealed the place to be a cemetery for ancient Anglo-Saxons who had been sentenced to death. In the Middle Ages, those who committed suicide were subjected to desecration, a practice that went largely unrecorded. While plague pits, mass graves for victims of the Black Death, have only recently started betraying their secrets. Although unpalatable to some, these burial grounds are an important record of cultural history and social change. Burying the Dead explores how these sites reveal the attitudes, practices, and beliefs of the people who made them.

Author : Richard Sugg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317354895

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Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires by Richard Sugg Pdf

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. In this comprehensive and accessible text, Richard Sugg shows that, far from being a medieval therapy, corpse medicine was at its height during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain, surviving well into the eighteenth century and, amongst the poor, lingering stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria. Ranging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland, and on to the tribal man-eating of the Americas, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires argues that the real cannibals were in fact the Europeans. Picking our way through the bloodstained shadows of this remarkable secret history, we encounter medicine cut from bodies living and dead, sacks of human fat harvested after a gun battle, gloves made of human skin, and the first mummy to appear on the London stage. Lit by the uncanny glow of a lamp filled with human blood, this second edition includes new material on exo-cannibalism, skull medicine, the blood-drinking of Scandinavian executions, Victorian corpse-stroking, and the magical powers of candles made from human fat. In our quest to understand the strange paradox of routine Christian cannibalism we move from the Catholic vampirism of the Eucharist, through the routine filth and discomfort of early modern bodies, and in to the potent, numinous source of corpse medicine’s ultimate power: the human soul itself. Now accompanied by a companion website with supplementary articles, interviews with the author, related images, summaries of key topics, and a glossary, the second edition of Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of medicine, early modern history, and the darker, hidden past of European Christendom.

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:HL5JFI

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The Practical Statutes of the Session ... by Great Britain Pdf

Author : S. Gammon,S. Elkington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781137428530

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Landscapes of Leisure by S. Gammon,S. Elkington Pdf

This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, it explores how leisure places and spaces affect personal, social and collective identities.

Author : Hugo Erichsen
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547625414

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The cremation of the dead by Hugo Erichsen Pdf

"The cremation of the dead" by Hugo Erichsen. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.