Eighteenth-century London was a city where the living and the dead existed side by side. Beneath crowded churches, within parish churchyards and across the capital’s hospitals, the dead remained a constant presence, shaping daily life in ways that are almost unimaginable today. Bodies educated generations of surgeons, supplied the anatomy schools through the work of resurrection men, hung in chains on the city’s outskirts as warnings to the living, and even appeared in the service of advertising and commerce.
In this fascinating talk, historian Dan O’Brien explores the many places where death intersected with everyday life in Georgian London. From church crypts and dissecting rooms to gibbet cages and curious medical practices, discover how the capital became a city where mortality was never hidden away, but woven into the fabric of urban life itself.
Dan O’Brien
Dan O’Brien is a historian of
Georgian London whose research explores the relationship between
death, medicine and everyday life in the eighteenth-century city.
His work uncovers the forgotten places and remarkable stories that
reveal how London’s living once shared their streets with the
dead.
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Death in Georgian London
Life, Death and the Georgian Metropolis |
19:00 - 21:00 | £13.75 |
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