No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality by Molly Conisbee #foliosociety Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner

Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in Berlin and the Joliot-Curies in Paris

unique and compulsively readable

Lara Maiklem has been scouring the banks of the tidal Thames looking for objects – lost or discarded – that tell forgotten stories

St Barnabas's irascible Provost does not appreciate his forceful line of questioning

the officers

No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality by Molly Conisbee #foliosociety Otto Hahn and Lise MeitnerHistory is dominated by A list deaths: queens beheaded; archdukes assassinated. But what about everyone else? How did ordinary people depart this life and grieve for loved ones and which of the old ways might help us prepare for the end? Our ancestors, living closer to death than we do, had a more intimate and integrated relationship with death as a familiar presence in daily life. From the death watchers of the Middle Ages to the pomp of Victorian