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A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
Austin, William, 1720-1820.Date: May 1773Reference: 25668iPart of: Nature display'd both serious & comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esq.r- Pictures
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The dissecting room of an anatomist, with a man thought to be dead waking up and sitting up in his coffin. Drawing, 183- (?).
Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]Reference: 562981i- Books
The Italian boy : murder and grave-robbery in 1830s London / Sarah Wise.
Wise, Sarah (Writer on English history)Date: 2004- Books
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The trial of Wm. Burke & Helen M'Dougal, on Wednesday, December 24, 1828 : in the High Court of Justiciary, before the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Clerk, and Lords Pitmilly, Meadowbank, and Mackenzie, on an indictment for the wilful murder of Mary Patterson, James Wilson and Madgy M'Gonegal ... in the Canongate and West Port, Edinburgh, for the purpose of sale to the medical faculty.
Date: [1829?]- Books
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The trial, sentence and confessions of Bishop, Williams, and May, at the Old Bailey, London, on Friday, December 2, 1831, for the murder of Carlo Ferrari, an Italian boy ; respite of May; execution of Bishop and Williams; together with an account of many circumstances connected with the period of their early life.
Bishop, John, -1831Date: 1831- Ephemera
Verses composed on the disgraceful traffic at present carried on of raising and selling the newly buried dead / William Smith.
Smith, William, the Haddington cobblerDate: [1829?]- Books
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Letter to the Lord Advocate, disclosing the accomplices, secrets, and other facts relative to the late murders ; with a correct account of the manner in which the anatomical schools are supplied with subjects / by the echo of Surgeons Square.
Paterson, David, doorkeeper to Dr. Robert Knox.Date: 1829- Pictures
Portraits of William Burke (1792-1829) and Helen McDougal (b. c. 1795), on trial in Edinburgh in 1828 for the West Port murders. Coloured etching, c. 1829.
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Genius of Britain. Part 2.
Date: 2010- Books
Digging up the dead : the life and times of Astley Cooper, an extraordinary surgeon / Druin Burch.
Burch, Druin.Date: 2007- Ephemera
Crime and executions ephemera. Box 1.
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Letter to the Lord Advocate, disclosing the accomplices, secrets, and other facts relative to the late murders : with a correct account of the manner in which the anatomical schools are supplied with subjects / by the Echo of Surgeons Square.
Echo of Surgeons Square.Date: 1829- Books
Some humble workers in the cause of anatomy a hundred years ago / by W.B. Howell.
Howell, William Boyman, 1873-Date: 1926- Pictures
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William Burke (centre), Dr Alexander Monro III (top left), William Robertson (top right), Thomas Beveridge (lower left), Dr Robert Knox (lower right) Silhouettes, c. 1830.
Reference: 25761i- Pictures
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Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829.
Date: [1829]Reference: 662572i- Books
After we die : the life and times of the human cadaver / Norman L. Cantor.
Cantor, Norman L.Date: [2010], ©2010- Pictures
Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: April 1829Reference: 12226i- Pictures
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Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching after W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: March 1829Reference: 12222i- Books
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Use of the dead to the living.
Smith, Southwood, 1788-1861.Date: 1828- Books
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Remembering and disremembering the dead : posthumous punishment, harm and redemption over time / Floris Tomasini.
Tomasini, FlorisDate: [2017]- Books
The lying brain : lie detection in science and science fiction / Melissa M. Littlefield.
Littlefield, Melissa M., 1979-Date: [2011], ©2011- Books
Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / Mary Roach.
Roach, Mary.Date: [2003], ©2003- Pictures
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Burdett, Peel, O'Connell and Wellington in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull with a rope; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
Sharpshooter, A.Date: [April 1829]Reference: 663317i- Pictures
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A monk and a statue of Saint Patrick trying to prevent the devil from snatching the corpse of a witch from its grave. Watercolour by E. Bell, 1804.
Bell, Edward, 1768-1847.Date: 1804Reference: 562718i- Videos
The anatomists. Part 2, The body snatchers.
Date: 2002