Everything Is Awful Forever
A macabre history podcast in which Jess and Philippa wax lyrical over the awful oddities of the past.
Everything Is Awful Forever
Down to Earth
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Philippa and Jess
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Episode 88
What do you do when your graveyards are at capacity and everyone's simply dying to get in? Join Jess and Philippa as they confront burial reform in Victorian London and the corpse-ridden scandals that shook the city.
Sources:
Arnold, C. (2006) Necropolis: London and its Dead. London: Simon & Schuster.
Jackson, L. (2014) Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Walker, George. (1839) Gatherings from Graveyards.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y95wwnen