Written by Lauren
Rating: 5
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As a London Month of the Dead regular, I was chuffed to have an event around Christmas. The performance was fantastic and the atmosphere was perfect!
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £12.00
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Sat, 15th Oct 2022 @ 13:30 - 15:00
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13:30 - 15:00
The once celebrated surgeon and anatomist Joseph Constantine Carpue (1764–1846) and his medical school in Soho are now almost completely forgotten, Carpue's reputation eclipsed by those of envious contemporaries who dismissed him as “a clever but very eccentric person”. Although a Catholic, a political radical and something of an outsider, his many medical achievements, which included performing the first rhinoplasty in Britain in 1814 (replacing a nose severed by a French sabre at the Battle of Albuera) and amputating the leg of Charles Dickens’ favourite uncle, led to royal patronage and a highly successful career.
But Carpue’s career had a darker side. At his anatomy school in Dean Street students frequently watched him haggle over the price of corpses with resurrection men; "Gentlemen, that's the cheapest piece of beef I have bought this year!" he announced proudly after one successful negotiation. This talk will look at Carpue’s most outrageous cases; hear how he crucified the corpse of a Chelsea pensioner for the instruction of a group of Royal Academicians, about his experiments electrocuting the cadavers of executed murderers, the dissection of the sword fencing, cross dressing Chevalier d’Eon, his involvement in a royal homosexual scandal in which a Duke’s valet has his throat cut, and the boy from Devon with a foetus in his abdomen.
Tickets £12 including a 20% donation toward a host of restoration projects at Kensal Green Cemetery.
David Bingham
Born in the north of England, David Bingham has been living in London for 35 years. He loves the city and its history, especially the cemeteries. He is married to a Portuguese coimetrophobe and they have two teenage girls. They have a house in Portugal and one day plan to split their time between Lisbon and London.
David started The London Dead three years ago as a way of sharing his fascination with the stories he discovered in the cemeteries and churchyards of London. One day, when he finally rids himself of work commitments — and the girls don’t require chauffeuring and chaperoning somewhere virtually every evening and weekend — he will start a blog called The Lisbon Dead.
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Tickets/Times
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The Soho Dissection Room
The use of the London dead to the living |
13:30 - 15:00 | £12.00 |
Location
Address
Dissenters Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, 391 Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 5AB
Nearest Station
Ladbroke Grove (Tube)
Getting there
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city.
Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported.
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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