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20th<\/sup> April 3.30-5pm, Room 0.01 St Katharine’s Lodge While historians are used to researching in the paper records of those long dead, less time is spent examining the process of death and burial.\u00a0 This talk examines French and British records of death in eighteenth-century imperial wars, tracking how death was documented and catalogued, and how rates of death were interpreted by officials, as well as by the public.\u00a0 While British records were increasingly quantitative, raising concerns over \u2018excess\u2019 numbers of death during colonial campaigns, French archives of death obscured numbers and instead provide details into the daily lives of soldiers and sailors.\u00a0 A case study of a recent archaeological excavation of a military mass grave from the 1757 Battle of Prague shows how much information can be gleaned from bodies and burial practices, demonstrating the range of evidence that death can provide not only into campaign logistics, but also into everyday life.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_button button_url=”mailto:medhums@st-andrews.ac.uk?subject=Medical%20Humanities%20Mailing%20List” button_text=”Subscribe to our mailing list” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_size=”18px” button_text_color=”#FFFFFF” button_bg_color=”#407eb4″ button_border_width=”0px” button_font=”||||||||” button_icon=”5||divi||400″ button_on_hover=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”on|desktop” button_bg_color__hover=”#003e74″ button_bg_enable_color__hover=”on”][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Title: ‘Learning from the Dead: Bodies, Burials, and Archives of Eighteenth-century Imperial War’<\/p>\n