Traffic in corpses and the commodification of burial in Georgian London
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 161756-70904-1283
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1017/S0268416014000174
- Title of journal
- Continuity and Change
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 181
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 0268-4160
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0268416014000174
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The article, one of the principal outputs of a major Wellcome Trust Research Grant, is of crucial significance to preindustrial urban historical demography and the understanding of eighteenth-century attitudes to the dead. The article establishes that there was an active market in the provision of suitable, and affordable, burial grounds. Based on an exhaustive statistical analysis of a database of 75,989 burials from St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, it finds that due to a large, hitherto unsuspected, post-mortem flow of corpses between parishes, burial totals sometimes reflect local cost of interment rather than fluctuations in mortality rates.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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