'A beautifully written and thought provoking journey' Professor Sue Black, author of All That Remains 'There surely won't be a better history of the subject than Conisbee's' Literary Review 'Richly researched ... an intimate chronology' TLS The lost art of 'dying well' was common knowledge to our ancestors - who, living closer to death than we do, had an intimate and integrated relationship with the afterlife. For centuries, cycles of death, dying and disposal have shaped society, from the death-watchers of the Middle Age to the pomp of Victorian funeral wear.
Ranging from the plague pit to the grave-robbery, from consecrated ground to the hangman's drop, No Ordinary Deaths is a groundbreaking work of social history which asks: how did our ancestors live, and die? How might the old ways help prepare us for our own ends?
| ISBN: | 9781800815889 |
| Publication date: | 2nd April 2026 |
| Author: | Molly Conisbee, Wellcome Collection |
| Publisher: | Wellcome Collection an imprint of Profile |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history History: plagues, diseases, famines History of medicine |
'A beautifully written and thought provoking journey' Professor Sue Black, author of All That Remains 'There surely won't be a better history of the subject than Conisbee's' Literary Review 'Richly researched ... an intimate chronology' TLS The lost art of 'dying well' was common knowledge to our ancestors - who, living closer to death than we do, had an intimate and integrated relationship with the afterlife. For centuries, cycles of death, dying and disposal have shaped society, from the death-watchers of the Middle Age to the pomp of Victorian funeral wear.
No Ordinary Deaths features in the following genres: Social and cultural history, History: plagues, diseases, famines, History of medicine
Paperback, Hardback. £10.79, down from the £11.99 cover price. In Stock.
No Ordinary Deaths was written by Molly Conisbee, Wellcome Collection and published by Wellcome Collection an imprint of Profile
No Ordinary Deaths has 368 pages
£10.79, reduced from £11.99. In Stock.