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Roger Luckhurst

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Writer, academic + freelance. Gothic, SF, lit + film. Recent book: Gothic (2021). *Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead* coming soon.
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The Great Majority Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain

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By Roger Luckhurst, Catharine Arnold
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As populations flocked to city centres in the 19th century, church cemeteries began to overflow with the dead. Roger Luckhurst exhumes the history of this period, when anatomists fuelled a body-snatching trade led by “resurrection men” and reformers sought alternatives to the toxic urban graveyards and their pestilent fumes. Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. William Austin, The Anatomist Overtaken by the Watch in Carrying off Miss W— in a Hamper, 1773.
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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys

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By Roger Luckhurst
| Literary Review Verified
Touring the Tombs By Thames & Hudson 240pp £30 By Granta Books 336pp £20 Subscribe or Sign In to read the full article For People Who Devour Books
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The Ancient Burial Rituals That Have Shaped How We Treat Our Dead

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By Roger Luckhurst
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In 1907, Robert Hertz, a French sociologist of religion, published an influential essay called “A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death.” He argued that in most human cultures, death unfolds in two stages. Article continues after advertisement First is the physiological death, the blunt organic event. What follows is an interval in which the death passes into the social realm, leading to a secondary, symbolic death staged in funerary rituals.
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