Highgate (Paperback)

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Editorial: Craig Ferguson's Dark House Publishing, 2026

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Paperback. Step through the gates of one of the world's most famous cemeteries - and learn to read it the way its Victorian visitors once did.Highgate Cemetery has been many things across nearly two centuries: a commercial solution to a Victorian sanitation crisis, a fashionable status symbol for London's rising middle class, a nearly abandoned ruin swallowed by ivy, the epicenter of a bizarre 1970s vampire panic, and finally a rescued heritage site saved by ordinary volunteers with hand tools and nothing but determination.Structured as a guided walking tour and narrated by a scholarly, gleefully morbid historian-guide, HIGHGATE takes you through twenty chapters covering: - The Egyptian Avenue and the Victorian fashion for borrowed antiquity- The Circle of Lebanon, built in a ring around a cedar older than the cemetery itself- The full, unsentimental economics of Victorian death - what a grave actually cost, and what that meant- The coded language of mourning: broken columns, reversed torches, angels who won't meet your eye- Karl Marx, George Eliot, and Michael Faraday - three very different graves, three very different arguments about what a monument is for- The infamous "Highgate Vampire" panic of 1970, and how a derelict cemetery became a tabloid sensation- The volunteer rescue that saved the cemetery from ruin, grave by grave, ivy strand by ivy strand- The cemetery as it exists today - still receiving burials, still selling plots, still very much aliveThis is not a dry academic survey. It's a walk - through iron gates, sunken avenues, and quiet unconsecrated ground - told by a guide who finds the whole business of Victorian death genuinely, unapologetically fascinating, and wants you to feel the same way by the time you reach the gate again.For readers of Victorian social history, London history, cemetery and mortuary studies, and anyone who has ever wondered what a headstone is actually trying to tell you. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Título
Highgate (Paperback)
Autor
Craig Gerard Ferguson
Editorial
Craig Ferguson's Dark House Publishing
Año de publicación
2026
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
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9798235958647

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