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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.

Reference

25731i

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?]

Burke & Hare / Alanna Knight.

Date

2007

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

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.

Date

April 1829

Reference

12226i

Burke and Hare : the story of a terrible partnership / [Hargrave L Adam].

Date

1913

Burke & Hare : the resurrection men / From the Fenwick Beekman Collection at the New York Academy of Medicine ; edited, and with an introduction by Jacques Barzun.

Date

1974

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

Bodysnatchers : a history of the resurrectionists, 1742-1832 / Martin Fido.

Date

[1988], ©1988

The history of Burke and Hare and of the resurrectionist times : a fragment from the criminal annals of Scotland / [George MacGregor].

Date

1884

Observations on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare, and other atrocious murderers : measurements of the heads of the most notorious thieves confined in the Edinburgh Jail and Bridewell ... presenting and extensive series of facts subversive of phrenology / read before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh by Thomas Stone.

Date

1829

The doctor dissected : a cultural autopsy of the Burke and Hare murders / Caroline McCracken-Flesher.

Date

[2012], ©2012

The long view : Burke, Hare and Knox.

Date

2000

Burke & Hare / Owen Dudley Edwards.

Date

[1993], ©1993

Observations on a late pamphlet by Mr. Stone, on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare, etc.

Date

1829

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.

Date

1829

Burke and Hare : the year of the ghouls / Brian Bailey.

Date

2002

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.

Date

[April 1829]

Reference

663317i

Burke and Hare and the psychology of murder / by Charles W. Burr.

Date

1917

The true story of Burke & Hare / written and illustrated by John Mackay.

Date

[1988], ©1988

The court of Cacus : or, the story of Burke and Hare / by Alexander Leighton.

Date

1861

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.

Date

1829

The history of Burke and Hare and of the resurrectionist times : a fragment from the criminal annals of Scotland / by George MacGregor.

Date

1884

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.

Date

March 1829

Reference

12222i

The anatomy murders : being the true and spectacular history of Edinburgh's notorious Burke and Hare, and of the man of science who abetted them in the commission of their most heinous crimes / Lisa Rosner.

Date

[2010], ©2010