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Dec 16, 2020 · In some images, flowers surround the deceased. In others, symbols of death and time — like an hourglass or a clock — mark the portrait as a post-mortem photograph. By capturing the dead on film, Victorian death photos gave families the illusion of control.
Jun 4, 2016 · Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of...
Jun 27, 2015 · Taking post-mortem photos, or memento mori, of the dead was common in Victorian times. Often they were of babies or young children who fell victim to rampant diseases, but few of those post-mortem ...
Oct 20, 2014 · The eerie Victorian ritual of post-mortem photography ushered in a new era of family portraits – for the living and the dead. Grieving families soon took up the new technology to create everlasting mementos of the dearly departed.
Dec 7, 2012 · A few days later news of Time Team‘s demise broke in the Guardian. It was a perfunctory end for a television institution that, over two decades, made British archaeology more accessible and popular than ever. Here we chart the highs and lows of a revolutionary format that aimed to bring archaeology to the people.
Jan 6, 2013 · Brancaster, Norfolk: Directed by Chris Rushton, Siân Price. With Tony Robinson, Phil Harding, Francis Pryor, John Gater. Tony and the team take a look around a site at Brancaster in Norfolk, which is believed to have been a Roman 'Shore-Fort' in the past.
Oct 27, 2017 · Known as memento mori (which means “remember you must die”), the trend became increasingly popular for a period of time, and even Queen Victoria slept underneath a photo of her dead husband.
