It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman in possession of a love of history, must be in want of a blog.
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten". Ecclesiastes 9:5 How will we be remembered we die? Will we be remembered at all? These are questions which occupied minds in early modern England just as …
Continue reading “Teaching marble to lie”: Remembering the dead in early modern monuments
Slate magazine has created an 'Interactive Game of Death' in which you can find out what you might have died of had you been living at various points from 1647 to the present. It churns through historical English and American death records in order to come up with a list of the ailments and accidents which …