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Absolutely loved it! It was so atmospheric and the story teller was fantastic.
DEATH IN THE KITCHEN The History of Home Post Mortems
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3 reviews - Guys Hospital Chapel
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £13.75
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Sun, 26th Oct 2025 @ 11:00 - 13:00
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11:00 - 13:00
Before custom-built mortuary spaces were widely available,
doctors and pathologists often had to make do with other locations,
from schoolrooms and sheds to pubs and houses. Throughout the 19th
and into the mid 20th century, many rural GPs were tasked with
performing postmortems for the coroner in cases of sudden or
suspicious death. Some of these doctors found themselves
improvising with the contents of ordinary domestic households:
dining tables, bowls, towels, and buckets. What did this mean for
families, and for the professional status of both GPs and
pathologists?
In this talk, historian Dr Jennifer Wallis reveals the ‘domestic
postmortem’ to be a practice that can tell us a great deal about
the history of pathology, the emotional and sensory experiences of
death, the tensions between rural and urban medicine, and the
increasingly proscribed role of the GP in the 20th century.
Jennifer
Wallis
Dr Jennifer Wallis is a
Lecturer and Senior Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London. Her
publications include Investigating the Body in the Victorian
Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices (2017) and the co-authored
volume Anxious Times: Medicine & Modernity in Nineteenth-Century
Britain (2019). She is also the Press Officer for indie publisher
Headpress.
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DEATH IN THE KITCHEN
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11:00 - 13:00 | £13.75 |
Location
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Guys Hospital Chapel, Kings Colllege, The courtyard, London, SE1 1UL
Nearest Station
Ladbroke Grove (Tube)
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Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
Each year, Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation host London Month of the Dead, a festival of over 60 different events to inform, provoke and entertain on teh subject of mortality and the city.
Events include walks, talks, workshops, theatrical performances, storytelling, live-scored films, concerts, and visits to secret parts of the city.
Subjects span the cultural landscape from the forensic to the esoteric with an unparalleled range of speakers, performers, guides and experts.
Each year, London Month of the Dead donates 20% of ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries.
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