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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Sun, 23rd Oct 2022 @ 13:30 - 15:00
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13:30 - 15:00
The morgue was one of the most infamous ‘attractions’ of nineteenth-century Paris. Located just moments from Notre-Dame, it drew tens of thousands of visitors every day to see the bodies on public display, ostensibly for the purpose of helping the police identify the unknown dead. Not only famous in France, it was written up in guide books across the world as a major tourist attraction (occasionally referred to as “the best free theatre in Paris”) and was visited by famous figures including Charles Dickens, Emile Zola and Sigmund Freud.
In this talk, Catriona Byers will explore some of the wild, entertaining and tragic tales from the morgue, a journey that will take us from corruption and true-crime tabloids to dark tourism, early forensic science, and even the ‘most kissed face of all time’. Along the way, she will show how the story of this ‘popular attraction’ is also a story of medical exploitation and abuses, enforcing social hierarchies, moral panic, and the deliberately blurred line between being poor, and being a criminal.
Catriona Byers
Catriona Byers is a writer and historian specialising in urban death, policing, medicine, forensics and photography from the nineteenth-century to the present day. She’s currently working on a PhD at King’s College London, focusing on the morgues of Paris and New York from 1864-1914, alongside research projects relating to interwar crime scene photography, and American pauper cemeteries. She divides her time between London, Paris and New York, and moonlights as a photographer and food stylist alongside her historical research. For more of Catriona’s work, you can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @heymorguegirl, or visit her research and professional websites.
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The Paris Morgue
Dark Tourism, True Crime and Morbid Medicine |
13:30 - 15:00 | £12.00 |
Location
Address
Brompton Cemetery Chapel, North gate off Old Brompton Road, South gate off Fulham Road, London, SW5 9JE
Nearest Station
West Brompton (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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