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The Scholar's Armchair

Dr. John Burton

Arts

Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 24

Great minds on the greatest ideas: Conversations with scholars on their area of expertise for a general audience. Less like a lecture, more a conversation with an expert. Check us out on YouTube!

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🇨🇦 Canada - books
02/08/2026
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The Lost Art of Dying Well | Molly Conisbee

Sunday, July 26, 2026 • Duration 58:56

Death is one of the few experiences every human being shares, yet in the modern world it has become something we rarely talk about. How did that happen? And what have we lost by pushing death to the margins of everyday life?

In this episode of The Scholar’s Armchair, I speak with social historian and bereavement counsellor Molly Conisbee about her remarkable book No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality. Rather than focusing on the deaths of kings and queens, Molly uncovers the experiences of ordinary people, revealing how communities across Britain have faced death, cared for the dying, mourned their loved ones, and searched for meaning in loss over the centuries.

Together we discuss the dramatic decline in child mortality, medieval and Victorian attitudes towards death, the changing role of hospitals and medicine, the disappearance of communal mourning rituals, and whether modern society has lost the “art of dying well.” Along the way we ask what history can teach us about grief, community, and ultimately what it means to live a good life.

Whether you’re interested in social history, cultural history, medicine, philosophy, or simply one of the most universal aspects of human experience, this is a thoughtful and deeply humane conversation.

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Molly Conisbee’s book: No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality https://profilebooks.com/work/no-ordinary-deaths/

Molly’s profile page: https://www.bath.ac.uk/person/509812

If you enjoy conversations like this, please like, subscribe, and let me know your thoughts in the comments.

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