the victorian era (2 févr. 1837 – 17 sept. 1901)

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In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardian period, and its later half overlaps with the first part of the Belle Époque era of Continental Europe. In terms of moral sensibilities and political reforms, this period began with the passage of the Reform Act 1832. There was a strong religious drive for higher moral standards led by the nonconformist churches, such as the Methodist, and the Evangelical wing of the established Church of England. Britain's relations with the other Great Powers were driven by the colonial antagonism of the Great Game with Russia, climaxing during the Crimean War; a Pax Britannica of international free trade was maintained by the country's naval and industrial supremacy. Ideologically, the Victorian era witnessed resistance to the rationalism that defined the Georgian period and an increasing turn towards romanticism and even mysticism with regard to religion, social values, and arts.
The victorians were pretty obssesed and it makes sence when we consider the smordgasbord of deseases that stalked the victorians, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, rubella, cholera, etc.. it was a sort of guantlet of death that both children and adults run through every day. That real threat of loss led people to keep trinkets of their deaths such as locks of hair or pictures of their lifless bodies. To do that, the dead bodies were kept at home during the morning and dstaged with children or siblings to pretend as if they were alive during the shot.
an other shocking event in the victorian era was that medical students had to practise but the British law made fewer offenses punishable at the 1823 so the students had to look elsewhere for dead bodies to train, Instead of lingeing around executionr's chambers, the body merchants started hitting the cemeteries to dig the death out of their graves to sell them to students.
Corps medicine was a real thing back then, this practise was at it's hight at the 16th and 17th century but still lingered well into the victorian era. Medical texts specified what body parts were good for what ailments, and there were recipe books that detailed how to prepare the pieces to peak deliciousness too.
However, Victorian culture, particularly its art and architecture, was often rather conservative in its outlook – perhaps understandably. This was, after all, a society in the grip of more convulsive, complex and disturbing change than had been experienced by any previous culture in human history.
This was an age that changed the way human life was perceived. Great scientific leaps often resulted in a crisis of religious faith. Yet it was also an age that saw the greatest burst of church building and foundation of charitable institutions since the Middle Ages.

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