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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
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Mortsafe at Oyne, Aberdeenshire.
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Mortsafe used as a cattle trough, Aberdeenshire.
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Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
Thomas RowlandsonDate: 1755Reference: 25772i
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Scottish bodysnatchers / Norman Adams.
Adams, Norman, 1936-2011Date: 2002
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Watchhouse at Peterculter graveyard, Aberdeenshire.
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The history of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist times : a fragment from the criminal annals of Scotland.
Mac Gregor, GeorgeDate: 1884
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Oversize ephemera. EPH+49.
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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: 25668i
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Entrance to vault in Leochel old churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
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Three bodysnatchers in the dock: James May, Thomas Williams and John Bishop. Lithograph, ca. 1831.
Date: [1831?]Reference: 7698i
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M0015588: Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers
Date: December 1956Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/139/47
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Report of the case : John Dorrance against Arthur Fenner, tried at the December term, of the court of common pleas, in the county of Providence, A.D. 1801 ; to which are added, the proceedings in the case [of] Arthur Fenner vs. John Dorrance / carefully compiled from notes correctly taken by several gentlemen who were present during the whole course of the trial.
Dorrance, John, 1747-1813Date: 1802
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Possessing the dead : the artful science of anatomy / Helen MacDonald.
MacDonald, HelenDate: 2010
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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
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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
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Body-snatching.
Date: 1824
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M0015799: "The Sack-'Em-Up-Man", from a drawing "The Body-snatcher" by H. Meredith Williams
Date: January 1957Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/141/52
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Grave disturbances : a history of the body snatchers / Geoffrey Abbott.
Abbott, GeoffreyDate: 2006
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The Italian boy : murder and grave-robbery in 1830s London / Sarah Wise.
Wise, SarahDate: 2004
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The court of Cacus, or, the story of Burke and Hare / by Alexander Leighton.
Leighton, Alexander, 1800-1874.Date: 1861
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Mortsafe in Towie churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
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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
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Mortsafe tackle at Invererie, Aberdeenshire.

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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- (?).

Mortsafe at Oyne, Aberdeenshire.

Mortsafe used as a cattle trough, Aberdeenshire.

Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.

Scottish bodysnatchers / Norman Adams.

Watchhouse at Peterculter graveyard, Aberdeenshire.

The history of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist times : a fragment from the criminal annals of Scotland.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+49.

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.

Entrance to vault in Leochel old churchyard, Aberdeenshire.

Three bodysnatchers in the dock: James May, Thomas Williams and John Bishop. Lithograph, ca. 1831.

M0015588: Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers

Possessing the dead : the artful science of anatomy / Helen MacDonald.

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.

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.

Body-snatching.

M0015799: "The Sack-'Em-Up-Man", from a drawing "The Body-snatcher" by H. Meredith Williams

Grave disturbances : a history of the body snatchers / Geoffrey Abbott.

The Italian boy : murder and grave-robbery in 1830s London / Sarah Wise.

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

Mortsafe in Towie churchyard, Aberdeenshire.

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.

Mortsafe tackle at Invererie, Aberdeenshire.