VOICES IN THE ETHER - Communing with the Dead

  • Brompton Cemetery Chapel

Description

  • Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
  • Tickets from £12.00
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  • Sun, 27th Oct 2019 @ 13:00 - 15:00
  • 13:00 - 15:00

VOICES IN THE ETHER
Communing with the Dead with Rhodri Hayward
A part of the London Month of the Dead
At Brompton Cemetery Chapel

The rise of spiritualism moved hand in hand with advances in telecommunications. The first “mediums” in mid nineteenth-century Europe and North America presented their successes as a pioneer act of spiritual telegraphy, opening up a channel of communication between the realms of the dead and the Victorian home. By the twentieth century, technological advances such as wireless radio, television and home computing provided new materials for imagining the afterlife and our interactions with it. The dead were understood as lost radio transmissions trapped in the ionosphere or quite literal 'home recordings' in which past lives were traced out in the magnetic properties of bricks and mortar. In an age in which we find ourselves 'ghosted' by potential internet friends, this talk will provide a whistle-stop tour of the way that technology has transformed our spiritual lives. 

Tickets £12 including a delightful gin cocktail.

Rhodri Hayward 
Rhodri Hayward is Director of the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. He has published on the history of dreams, Pentecostalism, demonology, cybernetics, psychiatric epidemiology and the relations between psychiatry and primary care. He is currently working on a history of tidying up. 

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Voices in the Ether
LMOD Ticket
13:00 - 15:00 £12.00

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Brompton Cemetery Chapel, In the middle of Brompton cemetery, Entrances at Fulham Road and Old Brompton Road, London, SW10 9UG

Nearest Station

Earl's Court (Tube)


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JustPark

Organiser

A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.

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