UoB Grief Seminars: Dr Molly Conisbee, What Can We Learn from History about Grief, Loss & Bereavement?

About the event

In this talk, Molly Conisbee explored some historical understandings of grief and loss, and how they might be used in contemporary contexts of bereavement counselling. She drew on research from her recent book No Ordinary Deaths – A People’s History of Mortality and also her work as a bereavement counsellor. Data and archival research on how grief was experienced and articulated in the past have impacted her practice-based work with clients, particularly those who want to explore the impact of grief on their relationship with their own stories and their strategies for facing the future.

Molly Conisbee is in the final stages of qualifying to be a bereavement counsellor and is a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath. She is the author of No Ordinary Deaths – A People’s History of Mortality (Profile/Wellcome), published May 2025.

This event is part of a new seminar series organised by the Bristol Centre for Grief Research and Engagement, in association with the Good Grief Festival.