Samantha Perrin

Historian

Sam is a social historian of the long nineteenth century, focusing primarily on death practices and cemeteries from that period. She holds an MA in Victorian Studies from Birkbeck, University of London, and is currently researching Victorian burial reform and the funerals that go disastrously wrong. She has previously delivered talks to the LNCSS, National Archives, Museums Show-Off, Camden History Society, Wellcome Trust, Pride in STEM, Dickens Fellowship and Museum of London.