Victorian death rituals

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Death was an everyday part of life in 19th-century Britain – and the Victorians were fascinated by it, developing a wealth of customs and rules about how people should bury their dead and how they should grieve. Many of these – from hair jewellery to deathbed photography – seem strange to modern eyes, but they sprang from a deep desire to pay respect to the deceased. Speaking to Rebecca Franks, Judith Flanders takes us on a moving journey from the sickbed to the cemetery. (Ad) Judith Flanders is the author of Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain (Picador, 2024). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rites-Passage-Mourning-Victorian-Britain/dp/1509816976/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.5	death and taxes might be the only certainties in life.
0:54.9	But the ways in which the dead are buried, mourned and remembered is constantly changing.
1:00.7	In her book, Rights of Passage, Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain,
1:06.0	Judith Flanders explores how our 19th century ancestors felt about these weighty subjects. She spoke to Rebecca
1:13.1	Franks about the elaborate etiquette of mourning, the now forgotten roles of funeral mutes and feathermen,
1:19.7	and the disordered grief of Queen Victoria. Welcome to the podcast and thank you for joining me.
1:26.1	We're here to talk about the topic of death and
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