Death

A 14th-century Flemish illustration depicting the burying of plague victims in coffins in Tournai in 1349. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Black Death: “Oh father, why have you abandoned me?”

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Victorian surgeon Robert Liston during an operation

An appointment at the house of death: the horror of the early Victorian hospital

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A painting by Vincenzo Camuccini depicting the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?

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The execution of Charles I. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Murder, conspiracy and execution: six centuries of scandalous royal deaths

The skull of a Roman man from London

In pictures: Romans and their dead

Outbreaks of dance mania saw sufferers foaming at the mouth and trying to beat demons out of their bodies with sticks. (Photo by The Granger Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)

The medieval dance of death

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The death of Stalin

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Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial

Rescue workers at the scene of the wrecked Pantglas Junior School at Aberfan, South Wales. (Getty Images)

Death under the black mountain: the Aberfan disaster

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“I’ve been close to death nine times”: John Simpson on life as a foreign correspondent

Victorian burials and the history of psychology

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Top 10 bizarre photo galleries

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Sam Willis on Shipwrecks: from Shakespeare to cannibalism

Temptation, scenes of devils in everyday life (a banquet, war, love, marriage etc), folio 215V of Breviary of Love, late 13th - early 14th century Provencal codex by Ermengol de Bziers (detail) | Photo Credit: [ The Art Archive / Real biblioteca de lo Escorial / Gianni Dagli Orti ]

“People in the Middle Ages coped better with death than we do”