Two AHRC/ LAHP PhD researchers tell us all about funerary literary and material culture from the ‘long 18th century’. From the understudied ‘Graveyard poets’ and their ecologist, Christian sensibilities, to fashions and economic impacts of decorative coffin furniture.
James Metcalf – researching eighteenth-century ‘Graveyard Poetry’, poems musing on death and the afterlife, at KCL.
Sarah Hoile – researching funerary material culture, including coffin fittings, at UCL.
Read two blogs by Sarah, reflecting on recording this episode (https://sarahhoile.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/grave-yards-episode-footnotes-kcl-radio-show/) and on early Victorian coffins and coffin furniture (https://cemeteryclub.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/early-victorian-coffins-and-coffin-furniture/).
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