NEW PUBLICATIONS

20123
This year sees an unprecedented publication output from the MOLA osteology team. To order your copies please contact Stephanie Ostrich on 020 7410 2228 or at booksales@mola.org.uk To see full details of all MOLA books and forthcoming titles please visit the publication pages at www.mola.org.uk

New Bunhill Fields burial ground, Southwark

Excavations at Globe Academy, 2008
Adrian Miles with Brian Connell

A bioarchaeological study of medieval burials on the site of St Mary Spital

Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 19912007
Brian Connell, Amy Gray Jones, Rebecca Redfern and Don Walker

DOCTORS, DISSECTION AND RESURRECTION MEN

Excavations in the 19th-century burial ground of the London Hospital, 2006
Louise Fowler and Natasha Powers
MOLA MONOGRAPH 62

THE STORY OF MOLAS RESEARCH BEHIND THE MUSEUM OF LONDONS EXHIBITION DOCTORS, DISSECTION AND RESURRECTION MEN

Disease in London, 1st19th centuries

An illustrated guide to diagnosis
Don Walker

He being dead yet speaketh

Excavations at three post-medieval burial grounds in Tower Hamlets, east London, 200410
Mike Henderson, Adrian Miles and Don Walker with Brian Connell and Robin Wroe-Brown

A R C H A E O LO GY S T U D I E S S E R I E S 24

MONOGRAPH 56

MONOGRAPH 64

MONOGRAPH 60

New Bunhill Fields burial ground, Southwark

Excavations at Globe Academy, 2008

A bioarchaeological study of medieval burials on the site of St Mary Spital

Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 19912007

Doctors, dissection and resurrection men

Excavations in the 19th-century burial ground of the London Hospital, 2006

Disease in London, 1st19th centuries

An illustrated guide to diagnosis

He being dead yet speaketh

Excavations at three postmedieval burial grounds in Tower Hamlets, east London, 200410

Don Walker
This book is designed to appeal to students and practitioners of osteology and palaeopathology, medical historians and forensic archaeologists; it can be used as a reference guide in the field and the laboratory. Human health affects all aspects of everyday life and skeletal remains represent direct evidence of the experiences of people in the past. This volume describes human skeletal remains from archaeological excavations in London, ranging from the Roman period to the 19th century. It includes more than 400 photographic and radiographic images of disease and traumatic injury, providing a unique opportunity to explore the lives of past communities. Series: MOLA Monograph 56 Format: Hardback, 290pp Price: 28 ISBN: 978-1-907586-10-1

Adrian Miles with Brian Connell

Documentary sources suggest that from c 182153 up to 33,000 burials may have taken place in the commercial Nonconformist burial ground at New Bunhill Fields, Southwark. Excavation of 827 wooden coffin burials in 2008 allows comparisons of the use of the burial ground, coffin furniture and burial finds with other contemporary cemeteries. Of particular interest is the good level of preservation of floral remains in a childs coffin, ceramic plates in a womans coffin and good examples of burial clothing. The 514 skeletons selected for full osteological analysis, demonstrating a broad spectrum of disease conditions, provide a wealth of information about life and death in this area of 19th-century London. Series: MOLA Studies Series 24 Format: Softback, 120pp Price: 15 ISBN: 978-1-907586-09-5

Brian Connell, Amy Gray Jones, Rebecca Redfern and Don Walker
Major excavations on the site of the Augustinian priory and hospital of St Mary Spital uncovered the remains of over 10,500 human skeletons. Unprecedented accuracy of dating and phasing of the cemetery was achieved using a targeted programme of stratigraphic and radiocarbon dating techniques, resulting in four chronological periods of burials. Osteological analysis of a sample of 5387 skeletons has provided a unique insight into the lives of medieval Londoners from the 12th to the early 16th centuries. Many of the skeletons showed evidence of disease and injury and the results of this major project are integrated into a biocultural framework, which includes the recurrent famines and epidemics of the time.

Louise Fowler and Natasha Powers

In 2006, archaeological excavations in the grounds of the Royal London Hospital uncovered the remains of a burial ground used primarily for deceased but unclaimed patients. The buried population included at least 259 people who died between c 1825 and 1841. These were mostly adult and male, and many, prior to the Anatomy Act of 1832, had been dissected or subjected to autopsy; this took place alongside the vivisection of animals, including exotic species. A wealth of primary documentation is combined with the archaeological evidence to reveal the day-to-day life of the hospital and the complex relationship between medical innovation and criminal activity in the early 19th century. Series: MOLA Monograph 62

Michael Henderson, Adrian Miles and Don Walker with Brian Connell and Robin Wroe-Brown
The latest in a series on postmedieval burial produced by MOLA, this volume reports on three nonChurch 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 182054, 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. Series: MOLA Monograph 64 Format: Hardback, 325pp Price: 30 ISBN: 978-1-907586-15-6 publication date: march 2013

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Series: MOLA Monograph 60 Format: Hardback, 300pp Price: 28 ISBN: 978-1-907586-11-8

Format: Hardback, 225pp Price: 26 ISBN: 978-1-907586-13-2

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