This event has finished Took place on: Thursday, 7th Mar 2024
In Rites of Passage, historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally – to modern eyes – bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain.
Through stories from the sickbed to the deathbed, from the correct way to grieve and to give comfort to those grieving to funerals and burials and the reaction of those left behind, Judith Flanders illuminates how living in nineteenth-century Britain was, in so many ways, dictated by dying. This is an engrossing, deeply researched and, at times, chilling social history of a period plagued by infant death, poverty, disease, and unprecedented change. In this talk, specially tailored for Highgate Cemetery, Judith Flanders will bring the Victorian way of death vividly to life.
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2024-03-07 2024-03-07 Europe/London Rites of Passage - Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain In Rites of Passage, historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally – to modern eyes – bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2024/03/07/rites-of-passage-death-and-mourning-in-victorian-britain-372302 Highgate Cemetery,Swains Lane,London,Location
Highgate Cemetery,
London,
N6 6PJ
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