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Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much more gory
Victorians revelled in images and descriptions of murder and mutilation which would today be regarded as shocking.
Rosalind Crone, The Conversation
· Oct 17, 2016 · 11:30 pm
Jack the Ripper, a women's history museum and London's fascination with all things gory
Our morbid interest in the macabre never vanished – it was just displaced.
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