Stone Age Herbalist
Substack author and commentator who wrote an essay on Victorian attitudes towards death and appears as the episode's expert guest discussing Jack the Ripper, body snatching, postmortem practices, and Victorian medicine and culture.
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Jan 28, 2026 • 21min
Victorian attitudes towards death
Stone Age Herbalist, a Substack writer and commentator, explores Victorian death culture. He unpacks Jack the Ripper's cultural power. He examines body snatching, postmortem photography, and how medicine and moral panic shaped attitudes. Short, vivid, and eerie takes on how Victorians confronted mortality.
