The Outcast Dead: Cross Bones Graveyard has sheltered the remains of London's most despised citizens for over 400 years. This is its story. - Couverture souple

Slade, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798857162194

Editeur : Independently published, 2023

Synopsis

For over four centuries, this Southwark burial ground's neighbourhood was home to London's legal brothels, policed and taxed by the 12th century's Bishop William Gifford and his successors. Nicknamed "Winchester Geese" to reflect the Bishop's role as their master, the women who worked these brothels were nonetheless refused burial in consecrated ground. Their bodies ended up at Cross Bones instead.

Since then, the horribly over-stuffed site has been used for the parish's pauper burials, pressed into service as a plague pit and targeted by London's most notorious gang of grave robbers. The surrounding streets became London's answer to Tijuana - a lawless region full of the most sordid pleasures anyone could crave. This was where you'd find the city's bear pits, the Victorians' worst slums and the wildest acid house parties of the 1990s.

Today, Cross Bones is a shrine to our own era's outcast dead, where 50,000 people a year attend regular vigils created by a shamanic local writer and attach their own heartfelt offerings to the site's gates. It's one of the most fascinating graveyards in London, and a vivid lesson in what the poor of this city have always had to endure.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798857162194
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 245
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