This event has finished Took place on: Thursday, 25th Oct 2018
£12 £12Today, the body snatchers who crept into the burial grounds of Georgian London to dig up the dead for the anatomy schools of London seem like characters from a dark gothic story.
But the body snatchers were not characters from fiction and the lucrative trade in human corpses was real.
Hear the real story of London's Resurrection Men, and the anatomy schools they supplied and discover how the development of surgery in the Enlightenment lead to the business of selling the dead.
Join Kirsty Chilton, our own museum researcher, and an expert on the topic of Bodysnatching in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Doors will open at 6:30 PM.
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2018-10-25 2018-10-25 Europe/London The Night of the Body Snatchers This talk by Kirsty Chilton will divulge the secrets of the corpse trade in London in the Georgian Period. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2018/10/25/the-night-of-the-body-snatchers-186630 The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret,9a Saint Thomas Street,London,LondonLocation
The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret,
9a Saint Thomas Street,
London,
London,
SE1 9RY
London,
London,
SE1 9RY
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