"Death Train Out of London" published in National Geographic's HISTORY Magazine

This article tells the historical tale of one of my favorite Fulbright-year findings: an 1800s railway line that was chartered specifically to carry coffins and mourners. The enterprising businesspeople behind the line, which brought the dead to a grand cemetery outside of London, thought it would solve the crisis of overcrowded urban burial grounds once and for all. They weren’t exactly right.

Check out the web article here.