{"product_id":"no-ordinary-deaths","title":"Molly Conisbee: No Ordinary Deaths [2026]","description":"'A beautifully written and thought provoking journey' Professor Sue Black, author of All That Remains\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There surely won't be a better history of the subject than Conisbee's' Literary Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Richly researched ... an intimate chronology' TLS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe lost art of 'dying well' was common knowledge to our ancestors - who, living closer to death than we do, had an intimate and integrated relationship with the afterlife. For centuries, cycles of death, dying and disposal have shaped society, from the death-watchers of the Middle Age to the pomp of Victorian funeral wear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging from the plague pit to the grave-robbery, from consecrated ground to the hangman's drop, No Ordinary Deaths is a groundbreaking work of social history which asks: how did our ancestors live, and die? How might the old ways help prepare us for our own ends?","brand":"Conisbee, Molly","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53173883896147,"sku":"9781800815889","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/conisbee-molly-no-ordinary-deaths-9781800815889-1226409836.jpg?v=1772925039","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/no-ordinary-deaths","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}