Death

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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”

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Iron Age fort and Bronze Age burial mounds uncovered in New Forest

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Christianity ‘transformed how dead were buried’

Q&A: What are the origins of the ‘mutes’ that attended Victorian funerals?

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When did the practice of funeral rings begin/end and how widespread was it?

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Roman Death