Barts Pathology new seminars explore London’s darker side.

Award-winning journalist, academic and popular historian Catharine Arnold offers a history of London’s dead, with a talk on the city’s largest cemeteries and the railway which transported bodies to them. The sites, which include Tower Hamlets Cemetery, are known as the ‘Magnificent Seven’ and were established in the 19th century to alleviate overcrowding in existing parish burial grounds.

Catharine is the author of Bedlam: London and its Mad and Necropolis: London and its Dead.