Who Lies Where by Michael Kerrigan

Who Lies Where by Michael Kerrigan

A tour of the dominions of the dead: the final resting places of the great and the good, the notorious and the downright nasty throughout the British Isles. As well as taking the reader through well-known sights such as the Glasgow Necropolis, St Paul's Cathedral in London, and Highgate Cemetery (where Karl Marx, George Elliot, Ralph Richardson and Christina Rosetti are buried) this book also visits places known mostly by association with one person: East Coker in Somerset, where T.S. Eliot is buried, or Cholsey in Oxfordshire, last resting place of Agatha Christie. The guide also contains information on the history of burial practices: the resurrectionists, plague pits, the use of quicklime to dissolve unwanted bodies, and promiscuous burial plots where so many people were interred together that the level of the ground rose - with disturbing consequences when heavy rain washed the topsoil away.

Michael Kerrigan is a freelance writer based in Edinburgh, specializing in the literature and history of classical Greece. He has written extensively about almost every aspect of archaeology, ancient history, and culture, covering subjects ranging from the rise of the Greek city state to the fall of Rome, from the organization of the Assyrian army to Persian mythology and prehistoric agriculture. He has contributed articles to various periodicals and newspapers, including contributions on classical Athens and on the Celts for the series Lost Civilizations, and on the rise of cities for the series History of the World. He is currently working on a history of torture from classical times to the present day.

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ISBN 13	9781857022582
ISBN 10	1857022580
Title	Who Lies Where
Author	Michael Kerrigan
Series	A Guardian Book
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	1998-02-05
Number of pages	422
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