Death & Disasters
Discover objects, stories and blogs that tell us about death and disaster through London’s history.
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The medieval graveyard on Newgate Street
How 1970s archaeologists recorded the remains of 234 people buried nearly 1,000 years ago
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
Silvertown 1917: London’s largest explosion
73 people died when an east London factory making TNT caught fire and exploded
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
Tower Hamlets Cemetery
Known locally as Bow Cemetery and the last of London’s Magnificent Seven cemeteries to be built
