Authors: David Brandon and Alan Brooke
Publisher: The History Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
From Roman London to the 'glorious dead' of the First World War, London city of the dead is the first systematic look at London's culture of death, including an analysis of its diverse superstitions, rituals and representations.
The book captures for the first time a side to the city that has always been every bit as fascinating and colourful as other better known aspeacts of the metropolis. It shows London in all its moods - serious, comic, tragic and heroic - and celebrates its robust acceptance of the only certainty in life: death.