Lorraine’s Reviews > Necropolis: London and Its Dead > Status Update

“Elaborate funerals were part of the rich panoply of nineteenth century life. Horatio Nelson set the standard after he was mortally wounded by a sniper at the Battle of Trafalger in 1805.....Hundreds of thousands brought London to a standstill as they watched the body hauled through the streets to St. Paul in a magnificent funeral ‘car’, a copy of his ship, the Victory.............”