Tag: funeral history

• The Forgotten Art of Funeral Hatchments

  Once a familiar sight over many a front door and undertaker’s shop window, the Funeral Hatchment has faded away into obscurity. What were they for? Where did they come from? The National Funeral Museum takes a look at the complex history of these beautiful painted panels that goes right to the heart of British Death,…

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  10th Mar 2023

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  college of arms, curator, funeral history, hatchments, heraldic funerals, london funeral museum, museum, national funeral museum, national funeral museum london, national funeral museum uk, royal college of arms, royal funerals

• How to Steal a Corpse: Body Snatching in Georgian Britain

  

  Wooden shovels, generous bribes and the cover of a moonless night; these were the tools of the infamous “Resurrection Men”. Furnishing the lecture theatres of Britain’s anatomy schools, we’ve taken a look at the practical side of this grisly business. As notes changed hands and cadavers were heaved over churchyard walls, the art of body…

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  31st Jan 2023

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  body snatcher, British History, burke and hare, death, funeral history, georgian, mary shelley, medical history, medicine, museum, national funeral museum