Tag: Industry

• A Lady Undertaker: 1912

  In 1912 an American “Lady Undertaker” addresses the question of why women are especially suited to work with the dead.

  Death and the Maiden

  07/09/2015

  Guest Post

  Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Funeral, Gender Roles, History, Industry, Society, Undertaker, Victorian, Women

• A Family Connection

  Social Historian, Sarah Hayes is the Collections and Exhibitions Manager at Newman Brothers Coffin Works in Birmingham. Discovering she had an ancestor working in the funeral trade in Birmingham over 150 years ago, and then of her daughter living on Fleet Street, just ten doors down from what was to become Newman Brothers Coffin Works is almost…

  Death and the Maiden

  13/04/2015

  Guest Post

  Ancestory, Birmingham, Burial, Business, Coffin Works, Coffins, Deadmaidens, Education, Family, Heritage, History, Industry, Museum, Newman Brothers, Objects, Trade

• The Corpse Brides

  If death is most often anthropomorphised into a foreboding, grinning male does it not make sense that his companion is female? The current ‘trend’ for women in the death industry is not a trend, then, but merely an influx of women taking their rightful place back at death’s side and, once again, becoming the guardians…

  Death and the Maiden

  08/03/2015

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  Academic, Anatomical Pathology Technology, Barts Pathology Museum, Business, Career, Carla Valentine, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Dying, Experiences, Gender Roles, Industry, Inspire, Mortuary, Pathology, Trends, Victorian, Women

• Death Under Glass

  The presence of a microscope in the morgue or the office of a forensic scientist seems to be a symbol to impress upon audiences the seriousness of the science being performed in that episode. But viewers are never shown “the pathologist’s view of the world”, so to speak – exactly what does the doctor see…

  Death and the Maiden

  28/02/2015

  Guest Post

  Anatomy, Art, Artist, Beauty, Career, Colour, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Death Under Glass, Diagnosis, Disease, Forensic, Industry, Inspire, Medical, Microscope, Morgue, Mortuary, Pathology, Post-Mortem