City of Sin
by Catharine Arnold | 
The Sexual History of London
by Catharine Arnold | 
Bedlam
by Catharine Arnold |
Pandemic 1918
by Catharine Arnold |
Ambivalent Conquests
by Inga Clendinnen |
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
by Adam Rutherford | 
Underworld London
by Catharine Arnold | 
Miracles and Massacres
by Glenn Beck |
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
by Daniel Pool | 
Persian Fire
by Tom Holland | 
Under a Flaming Sky
by Daniel James Brown | 
SPQR
by Mary Beard | 
The Wars of the Roses
by Dan Jones | 
The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed
by Judith Flanders | 
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
by James L. Swanson | 
Under the Black Flag
by David Cordingly | 
Triangle
by David Von Drehle | 
Only Yesterday
by Frederick Lewis Allen | 
The Course of Human Events
by David McCullough |
Eyewitness to History
by John Carey |
Layer upon layer of London soil reveals burials from pre-historic and medieval times. The city is one giant grave, filled with the remains of previous eras. The Houses of Parliament sit on the edge of a former plague pit; St Paul's is built over human remains; Underground tunnels were driven through forgotten catacombs, thick with bones. A society can be judged by the way it treats its dead, and this is especially true of London. From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the cult of mourning that surrounded the death of Diana, Princess of Wales - Necropolis leaves no headstone unturned in its exploration of our changing attitudes towards the deceased among us.