A look at the Victorian fascination with mummies and how the figure of the mummy (especially female mummies and Cleopatra herself) were particularly important for bolstering the idea of the empire around the 1880s.
With Dr Laura Eastlake, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Department of English, History, and Creative Writing
Edge Hill University
Image is Lily Langtree as Cleopatra.
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