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Although they ate far more calories than we do, because they were so active, obese Victorians were relatively rare. William Banting, a Victorian undertaker, was an exception.

He tweets. He blogs. He embalms. Caleb Wilde is a sixth-generation mortician, working for the family business in small-town Pennsylvania — a Victorian-style funeral home where the only visible ...

LINCOLN, R.I. — Every year since 2011, Simon E. Thornton has died again, been embalmed again and mourned again for the Hearthside House Museum's annual exhibit, "Death and Mourning in the ...

How the world's first 'punk undertaker' is redefining funerals as we know them From clifftop ceremonies to campervan-driven vigils and funeral pyres, Rupert Callender is revolutionising the 'bad ...

A contemporary young woman who is transported back in time and trapped in Victorian-era New York teams up with a handsome undertaker's apprentice and a local suffragist to unmask a serial killer ...

Counting the costs of a Victorian burial in Oxford Memory Lane. Nostalgia. By John ... It was sent by undertaker William Coates, based at 20 Adelaide Street, St Giles, Oxford.

In Victorian times few slum dwellers would have had ovens or cooking utensils. Many didn't even own plates or spoons. ... William Banting, a Victorian undertaker, was an exception.