Morgue
$32.75
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2027
Summary
Morgue is a book about the history and afterlives of the most influential building you’ve never heard of.
Peer through the enormous window and you will see twelve marble slabs. On each slab lies a corpse.
For over one hundred years, from 1804, the unidentified dead of Paris, Europe’s hub of art, culture and innovation, were publicly displayed at the world’s first morgue. Wherever they were found, their bodies were brought to the morgue and laid out for exhibit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398547902 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1398547905 |
| Author: | Dr Catriona Byers |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
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Dr Catriona Byers
Catriona Byers is a writer, photographer, and historian. She holds a PhD in History from King’s College London, where her thesis focused on the nineteenth-century morgues of Paris and New York. Her research has also explored the history of crime scene photography, haunted archives, and the redevelopment of American pauper cemeteries.
She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM).
In addition to her academic work, Catriona is a professional food stylist. Originally from Fife, Scotland, she is now based in Paris, France.
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