Exhibit:

Victorian Technocultures

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Part of Group:

Digital Victorians: 19th-century media, technology & culture

This exhibition explores the co-productive relationship between technology and culture in the 19th century. With a focus on the cultural processes and products of invention, it highlights the contributions of women and their navigation of the patent system; examines the cutlery industry as a prime example of how technological innovation, mass-production, international trade and advertising aligned with class-led social aspirations and growing consumerism; and considers how new media technologies affected ideas about the dead and the ways Victorians sought connection with deceased loved ones.

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Keeping the Dead Alive: Victorian Technology, Culture, and the Afterlife

This gallery has been created to explore how the Victorian relationship with the dead evolved with the emergence of new technologies.  It will explore how culture expanded to include developments in photography, telegraphy and sound, which brought new ways for the Victorians to keep their loved ones 'alive'. Photographic images and sound recordings of the dead are included, along with examples of ‘automatic writing’ to illustrate how technology affected Victorians’ ideas about the dead and the ways that they sought connection with deceased loved ones. The gallery also reviews the advent of...