{"id":894,"date":"2020-01-20T15:32:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/?p=894"},"modified":"2020-03-20T16:10:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T16:10:29","slug":"feb-17-19cc-at-the-bmi-death-becomes-her-on-victorian-mourning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/2020\/01\/20\/feb-17-19cc-at-the-bmi-death-becomes-her-on-victorian-mourning\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 17: Rebecca Mitchell at the BMI: \u201cDeath Becomes Her: On Victorian Mourning\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mon. 17 Feb: Rebecca N. Mitchell <\/b>BMI Partner Talk, \u201cDeath Becomes Her: On Victorian Mourning\u201d Birmingham &amp; Midland Institute, 1:00-2:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>For Victorian widows, mourning could be a full time job. Strict rules dictated what one could wear and where one could go in the weeks and months following a bereavement. But the Victorians also made a lively business out of mourning dress, as emporiums sprung up, offering the latest fashions and fads in appropriately sorrowful shades of black and purple. Join us for a talk that explores both sides of Victorian mourning dress: the sadness and the style.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/bmi.org.uk\/event\/monday-lecture-28-october-dr-emma-west-art-for-the-people\/\">bmi.org.uk for more info<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-895\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2020\/01\/mourningveil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mon. 17 Feb: Rebecca N. Mitchell BMI Partner Talk, \u201cDeath Becomes Her: On Victorian Mourning\u201d Birmingham &amp; Midland Institute, 1:00-2:00pm. For Victorian widows, mourning could be a full time job. Strict rules dictated what one could wear and where one could go in the weeks and months following a bereavement. But the Victorians also made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/2020\/01\/20\/feb-17-19cc-at-the-bmi-death-becomes-her-on-victorian-mourning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feb 17: Rebecca Mitchell at the BMI: \u201cDeath Becomes Her: On Victorian Mourning\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}