Recs if you like Necropolis: London and Its Dead...

Death will unfailingly find every person to have ever lived, yet is treated as a taboo topic in some cultures, causing extreme, pervasive anxiety. This nonfiction list aims to broaden understanding of this inevitability, both to hopefully negate some of the anxiety as well as satisfy some of our more morbid curiosities. It also aims to show that death is another, still useful, stage in the life cycle, aiding those that remain by helping to advance medicine, solve crimes, or understand art.

microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"

how we keep them, how they happen, how they taste, how we think about them, and everything else in-between

histories of our final resting places - cemeteries, graveyards, burial grounds, catacombs

suggestions welcome!

Books cited in Hayley Campbell’s “All the Living and the Dead.” Incomplete as of 6/12/26.