Death and the Victorians: A Dark Fascination

An entertaining and accessible romp through Victorian culture that reveals the fascinating and gruesome ways the Victorians revered, feared and exploited death.

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...