Death was everywhere in Victorian Britain, and this History Hit documentary asks why a society so prosperous became so preoccupied with mourning, ghosts, and the grave. Darwin's theory of evolution had cracked open old certainties about the afterlife, and the film argues that the resulting crisis of faith, the so-called Age of Doubt, pushed people toward new rituals for managing grief. It walks through the elaborate cult of mourning, with its strict dress codes and memorial customs, and visits the grand Victorian cemeteries built as landscaped "cities of the dead" on the edges of growing cities. Spiritualism gets substantial attention too, tracing how seances and mediums claiming contact with the dead became a mass phenomenon rather than a fringe practice. Along the way the film connects these customs to the era's macabre art and literature, showing how anxiety about mortality bled into fashion, photography, and fiction. Historians provide the narration and context throughout, tying each custom back to the specific scientific and religious upheavals that provoked it.