No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality by Molly Conisbee #foliosociety Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner

Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in Berlin and the Joliot-Curies in Paris

between this world and the next

ISBN: 9781800817449

OBSERVER 'Reading Genesis is alive with questions of kindness

unique and compulsively readable

No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality by Molly Conisbee #foliosociety Otto Hahn and Lise MeitnerHistory is dominated by A list deaths: queens beheaded; archdukes assassinated. But what about everyone else? How did ordinary people depart this life and grieve for loved ones and which of the old ways might help us prepare for the end? Our ancestors, living closer to death than we do, had a more intimate and integrated relationship with death as a familiar presence in daily life. From the death watchers of the Middle Ages to the pomp of Victorian