Down to Earth
Everything Is Awful Forever
English - May 31, 2021 17:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsArts Comedy history comedy discussion funny macabre victorian weird indie feminist Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What do you do when your graveyards are at capacity and everyone's simply dying to get in? Join Jess and Philippa as they confront burial reform in Victorian London and the corpse-ridden scandals that shook the city.
Sources:
Arnold, C. (2006) Necropolis: London and its Dead. London: Simon & Schuster.
Jackson, L. (2014) Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Walker, George. (1839) Gatherings from Graveyards.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y95wwnen