Universities Week Student Curator's Talk - Opium & the Victorians
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Following the opening of the MLitt Museum Studies students' exhibition Victorian Time: The Spirit of the Age, the talks will elaborate on various themes and objects found within.
As part of a series of lunchtime talks held in King's Museum MLitt student, Kirsty Matheson provides a free talk on the uses and prevalence of opium in Victorian life, with relation to its medicinal uses and as a recreational substance. There will also be a discussion on the role of opium in the literature of the time.
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Kirsty Matheson
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