Abney Park Cemetery is one of London's 'Magnificent Seven' garden cemeteries. It opened in 1840 and is the resting place of around 200,000 people in 60,000 graves. The Grade II listed Abney Park Chapel stands within the cemetery.
A talk on Victorian London's obsession with photographing the dead, held in the chapel of Abney Park Cemetery.
Illustrated talk by author Paul Gambino on Victorian mourning culture, drawing on his book 'Beyond the Veil' and including a chapter on Victorian attitudes to madness.
