From Dressmaker to Body Snatcher
I am delighted to welcome the wonderful ladies from All Things Georgian as my first guest bloggers. When I…
I am delighted to welcome the wonderful ladies from All Things Georgian as my first guest bloggers. When I…
Someone had to supply cadavers to the anatomy schools of Edinburgh beofre Burke and Hare came on the scene. It’s time to meet Edinburgh’s real body snatchers
Come across an iron cage in the middle of a churchyard and you’d be forgiven for wondering what it…
By the early 1800s, professional resurrection men or body snatchers were starting to appear within our parishes. People were…
To say that the poorer members of Georgian society were at a disadvantage when it came to protecting their…
The sad tale of Hannah Heesom who was snatched from her grave on New Year’s Eve 1828.
Cholera, a watch house and a shipping tragedy known to the locals as ‘Black Friday’ – Read the sad history of Eyemouth , a small fishing town in the Borders
The story of John McIntire who was buried alive in Edinburgh, 15 April 1824, is perhaps best taken with…
When it comes to body snatching prevention, it doesn’t come any better, or should I say smaller, than Eckford…
From Thomas Hood’s ‘Whims and Oddities’ 2nd Series “Twas in the middle of the night, To sleep young William…
Body snatching needed no great skill. There was no training involved, you basically perfected your talent as you went…
As the 19th century progressed and the demand for cadavers from anatomy schools and teaching hospitals across Britain rose,…