Abstract

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Anthea Lilley’s, research paper, The Dead and the Dying: A Comparative Study of Class in Relation to the Design and Cultures surrounding Victorian Funeral Traditions (2021) explores the notion of working-class attitudes to death. Exploring the culture surrounding Victorian working-class funerals, this research paper utilises historiographical methodologies, exploring key literature including Lady Florence Bell’s, At the Works: Study of a Manufacturing Town, Middlesbrough (1907) and Maud Pember-Reeves, Round About a Pound a Week (1913).