The diggum uppers : body snatching and grave robbing in the West Midlands / Kevin Goodman.

"They were called: Diggum Uppers; Resurrectionists; Body Snatchers, and Grave Robbers. Their trade was to keep the ever-demanding medical schools supplied with the bodies of the recently dead. But they weren’t confined to Edinburgh and London. They ranged across the West Midlands, from the heavy industrial areas of Birmingham, the Black Country, and the Potteries to rural Herefordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. Discover: the identities of the most infamous Diggum Uppers of the West Midlands; the medical men who supported them; the methods used to stop them, and the terrible truth of what happened when body snatching and grave robbing were outlawed."--Provided by publisher.