Death and the Victorians: A Dark Fascination

From spooky stories and real-life ghost hunting, to shows about murder and serial killers, we are fascinated by death - and we owe these modern obsessions to the Victorian age.

Death and the Victorians explores a period in history when the search for the truth about what lies beyond our mortal realm was matched only by the imagination and invention used to find it.

Walk among London's festering graveyards, where the dead were literally rising from the grave. Visit the Paris Morgue, where ...