‘He being dead yet speaketh’: excavations at three post-medieval burial grounds in Tower Hamlets, east London, 2004–10

Tower Hamlets has always been a heterodox amalgam of communities and faiths, many of which were excluded from the power and wealth of their neighbour, the City of London. This book looks at burial grounds of three faith communities, which also have diverse cultural, historic and geographic roots.

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The latest in a series on post-medieval burial produced by MOLA, this volume reports on three non-Church of England burial grounds in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, excavated between 2004 and 2010. It looks at over 1350 burials of Baptists, Roman Catholics and Nonconformists, the majority of whom died in 1820–54, and examines the archaeological and osteological evidence, along with the historical and documentary sources. The discussions aim to place the three populations within the wider context of 19th-century London and Britain, with the findings well illustrated and fully tabulated throughout.

Authors: Michael Henderson, Adrian Miles, Don Walker, with Brian Connell, and Robin Wroe-Brown

Series: Monograph Series 64

Published by: MOLA 2013. ISBN 978-1-907586-15-6. Hb 330pp+CD-ROM. 305 bl/wh and col ills.

Price: £30

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The results of a comparison between Catholic cemetery in Tower hamlets and those of the Kilkenny Workhouse Famine victims is discussed in an article - follow http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.22179/full link for more.

...and click on http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/the-kilkenny-workhouse-mass-burials-an-archaeology-of-the-great-irish-famine.htm for more about the Kilkenny Workhouse