It was yet another ordinary day in London at the beginning of March 1848. On the border of the ever-busy Clare Market and Clement’s Inn Passage, a few men had been hired to stroll up and down the densely packed streets of the surrounding slum, each carrying a human skull. Their task was to lure…
Brompton Cemetery is counted among the seven splendid Victorian necropolises of London, built in the nineteenth century. To this day, it stands as a testament to the enterprise and refined taste of the architects and engineers of that era. Confronted with the growing problem of burials in an ever-expanding metropolis and the overcrowding of small,…
