Morbid trinkets and macabre imagery was a regular occurrence since at least the 1600s. And 19th century mortality rates made death masks, mourning portraiture, and grieving rituals more prevalent because many died young.

Join me as I uncover the unique relationship people of the Victorian era had with death and dying and the fascinating ways they would capture a person's likeness for memorial purposes and grieving.

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A number of peat bogs around northern Europe, create an environment that acts as a “wonderful refrigerator for conserving dead humans”. Thousands of years later, we learn their secrets. Let's talk about it!

"At the beginning of the malady, certain swellings, either on the groin or under the armpits… waxed to the bigness of a common apple, others to the size of an egg, some more and some less, and these the vulgar named plague-boils." The Plague arrived in Europe for the second time in 1347... let's talk about it.

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