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The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen murders committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.
Burke & Hare is a 2010 British black comedy film, loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders of 1828. Directed by John Landis from an original screenplay by Nick Moorcroft and Piers Ashworth, the film stars Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as William Burke and William Hare respectively.
Sep 9, 2011 · A black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who provide cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. Starring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Tim Curry and others, directed by John Landis.
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- Comedy, Crime, History
- John Landis
- 2011-09-09
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12 min read. Burke and Hare, Edinburgh’s most ghoulish residents! In contrast to the increase in numbers of executions in the wake of the Bloody Code, the Judgement of Death Act 1823 saw the number of crimes punishable by death in Britain drop dramatically. Good news in theory, but since medical and anatomical schools were only legally ...
Burke and Hare were two Irish immigrants who became Edinburgh’s most notorious serial killers, murdering at least 16 people between 1827 and 1828. They are famous for two things, being murderers and also incorrectly, for being body snatchers.
Learn how two Irishmen became notorious for selling the bodies of their victims to medical schools in 19th century Edinburgh. Explore the history of anatomy, dissection and body snatching in Europe and Scotland.
The Burke and Hare murders - plus those of a gang called the ‘London Burkers’ - galvanised Parliament into finally doing something about the lack of bodies available to the medical profession for dissection.
