The Victorians: Life and Death - Professor Richard J. Evans
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- The nineteenth century, above all in Europe, was the age of the 'demographic transition', from high birth and death-rates to low ones; people's health improved, they lived longer, the devastating visitations of epidemics like smallpox, typhoid and cholera gradually disappeared. This lecture explores the reasons for this change, and looks at its effects on culture and society, attitudes towards death and suffering, disease, debilitation and at the end of the century, degeneracy and the Darwinian struggle for survival.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
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Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website.
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His voice is nice and soothing.
Years ago I read a description of one Victorian-era funeral. It's one of those stories where you don't know if it's true, but it ought to be. The deceased had left a provision in her will that every mourner at her funeral who did not laugh would receive a sum of money. During the funeral procession people kept thinking about that provision and about how silly it was. It's a funeral, who is going to laugh? The more people thought about it the sillier it became. All it needed was one person to lose control--and that's what happened. All in the procession started laughing uncontrollably, holding on to each other, to the hearse, all laughing!
It did make me take a good look at life and say can I do this?
This explains some of Queen Victoria and her mourning customs after Albert died.
Baby Princess Beatrice wore baby mourning clothes after Prince Albert died.
don't watch if you are already depressed. or grieving,
If you're interested in history of the Victorian people this Will not tell you anything new very slow and not very interesting