• Queen Victoria's Funeral & the Cult of Death

  • Nov 14 2024
  • Length: 38 mins
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Queen Victoria's Funeral & the Cult of Death

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  • Queen Victoria was synonymous with grief and the Victorian cult of death. Yet her own funeral wasn't that at all. Today Dan O'Brien explains to Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling how to bury a Queen like Victoria.


    Dr Dan O'Brien is a of historian of undertakers and funerals in Eighteenth Century England and researcher at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath.


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