Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Catharine Arnold

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Catharine Arnold is a British author, journalist and academic, best known for her 'London' series of five popular history books: Necropolis: London and Its Dead (2006), Bedlam: London and its mad (2008), City of Sin: London and its vices (2010), Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City (2012), and Globe Life in Shakespeare's London (2015). Her most recent book is Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History written in 2018. Catharine Arnold read English at Girton College, Cambridge and holds a post-graduate degree in psychology. Catharine Arnold is UK Council for Psychotherapy and Counselling Writer in Residence 2020.

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More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity.

Catharine Arnold

Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.

Catharine Arnold

Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.

Catharine Arnold

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Catharine Arnold

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