Victorian science and seance

The Victorian era is celebrated as birth of the modern world yet whilst scientific advances revealed the secrets of the natural world, Britain was also fascinated by the supernatural, from spiritualism and séances to gothic fiction and sensationalist serialisations. Even Queen Victoria would attend a physics lecture one evening and the next an opera filled with “lovely ghosts.” Discover how science, religion, fanaticism and the supernatural co-existed and what this meant for morality, beliefs and culture in Victorian society.