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Death and the Victorians
A Dark Fascination
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781399082556
Pub Date: 2024-04-04
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
192 Pages
An entertaining and accessible romp through Victorian culture that reveals the fascinating and gruesome ways the Victorians revered, feared and exploited death.From spooky stories and real-life ghost...
Strange Ways to Die in History
The Heroic, Tragic and Funny
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781399045520
Pub Date: 2024-02-29
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
192 Pages
A collection of over 100 of the most memorable deaths in recorded history.Death comes for us all in the end. But it does not always come in a way you might expect. Throughout history there have been...
Rituals of Death
From Prehistoric Times to Now
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781399098373
Pub Date: 2023-02-22
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
176 Pages
We all must die, and how society deals with the disposal is fascinating in the way it reflects the beliefs of the people of the time and ways in which they honor or do not honor the dead.
Famous Last Words
Confessions, Humour and Bravery of the Departing
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526770899
Pub Date: 2021-06-14
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
216 Pages
Nothing focuses the mind more starkly than impending death. Its inevitable spectre greets us all; from princes to paupers and nobility to the needy. Prepare to mount the scaffold and share in the final...
A Noble Way to Go
Deaths of English, Scots and Irish Peers, 1100-1900
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 9781781557136
Pub Date: 2020-04-16
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Fonthill Media
144 Pages
Owners of estates and titles in the peerages of England, Scotland and Ireland were more, rather than less, likely than ordinary people to experience dramatic and gruesome deaths and certainly more likely to have them recorded.
Only Love Breaks Open the Tombs
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 9781847308061
Pub Date: 2018-09-04
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Veritas
162 Pages
A book about providing pastoral care to the terminally ill; it explores `the delicate subject of the accompaniment of the human being at the end of life.' so that a patient's final days may be lived with dignity and meaning.
Death and the Irish
A Miscellany
Price: $42.00
ISBN: 9780993351822
Pub Date: 2016-01-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wordwell Books
300 Pages
An exploration of the relationship Irish people have with death from the earliest times to the present day, with over seventy articles from historians, sociologists, dramatists, liturgists, undertakers, and many more.
Suicide
A Modern Obsession
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 9781909718296
Pub Date: 2015-03-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Liberties Press
224 Pages
A timely and important contribution to the debate on the problem of suicide and related issues, of great interest to professionals working in the field of mental health and all those affected by suicide.
Death and the Victorians
A Dark Fascination
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781399082556
Pub Date: 2024-04-04
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
192 Pages
Strange Ways to Die in History
The Heroic, Tragic and Funny
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781399045520
Pub Date: 2024-02-29
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
192 Pages
Rituals of Death
From Prehistoric Times to Now
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781399098373
Pub Date: 2023-02-22
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
176 Pages
Famous Last Words
Confessions, Humour and Bravery of the Departing
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526770899
Pub Date: 2021-06-14
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
216 Pages
A Noble Way to Go
Deaths of English, Scots and Irish Peers, 1100-1900
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 9781781557136
Pub Date: 2020-04-16
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Fonthill Media
144 Pages
Only Love Breaks Open the Tombs
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 9781847308061
Pub Date: 2018-09-04
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Veritas
162 Pages
Death and the Irish
A Miscellany
Price: $42.00
ISBN: 9780993351822
Pub Date: 2016-01-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wordwell Books
300 Pages
Suicide
A Modern Obsession
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 9781909718296
Pub Date: 2015-03-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Liberties Press
224 Pages