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Manage episode 293796508 series 2494811
What do you do when your graveyards are at capacity and everyone's simply dying to get in? Join Jess and Philippa as they confront burial reform in Victorian London and the corpse-ridden scandals that shook the city.
Sources:
Arnold, C. (2006) Necropolis: London and its Dead. London: Simon & Schuster.
Jackson, L. (2014) Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Walker, George. (1839) Gatherings from Graveyards.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y95wwnen
109 episodes
Manage episode 293796508 series 2494811
What do you do when your graveyards are at capacity and everyone's simply dying to get in? Join Jess and Philippa as they confront burial reform in Victorian London and the corpse-ridden scandals that shook the city.
Sources:
Arnold, C. (2006) Necropolis: London and its Dead. London: Simon & Schuster.
Jackson, L. (2014) Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Walker, George. (1839) Gatherings from Graveyards.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y95wwnen
109 episodes
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