"The Specimens" by Mairi Kidd tells the story of the infamous Burke and Hare, Resurrectionists, through the eyes of the women in their lives. #bookrecommendations #tbrlist #historicalfiction #fiction #burkeandhare #thespecimens #mairikidd

Scotland has a shortage of dead bodies for medical student training, report finds | STV News

How do you solve a problem like this? Sensitive business increasing donors. Hope there are no modern-day counterparts of Burke and Hare getting any funny ideas ๐Ÿ˜ฌ ๐Ÿ’€

#Medicine #BurkeAndHare
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scotland-has-a-shortage-of-dead-bodies-for-medical-student-training-report-finds

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders

Scotland has a shortage of dead bodies for student training

The report found 290 bodies were accepted by anatomy departments with 178 rejected in 2023/24.

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Trip to Edinburgh today. It was supposed to be for research though it turned into more of an errand run for Uncle, but I did get to go to the Chambers Street museum to see the little mini coffins found on Arthurโ€™s Seat. No one knows who made them but they date from around the early 1800s. One theory is they symbolised the victims of Burke and Hare. Theyโ€™re going to be in my WIP though! #writing #Edinburgh #burkeandhare #research #wip

Taken this day, 2022, the Falkirk canal tunnel - part of which was excavated by the infamous Burke and Hare, before their Ressurection Men days in #Edinburgh https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/51980342253/

#Falkirk #FalkirkTunnel #ProspectHill #canal #ForthAndClydeCanal #canal #history #tunnel #BurkeAndHare #photography

Falkirk Tunnel 04

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โ€œIn the sunken woods that traverse the neighbourhood of the burying-ground the last glimmer failed them, and it became necessary to kindle a match and re-illumine one of the lanterns of the gig.  Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.โ€

- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body-Snatcher

#RobertLouisStevenson #BurkeandHare #HorrorClassics #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookstodon

We know that #ClimateChange will destroy hidden #archaeology . I find this report to be amazing. This preservation only happens in wet anaerobic conditions, and this is similar to #fossilisation stages. I find that #geoscience and archaeology often intermingle. Phone box size? Stone axe for hunting in after life? Maybe buried with smartphone to avoid accidents sooner and later?#BurkeandHare
https://inews.co.uk/news/bronze-age-coffin-golf-course-log-axe-artefact-lincolnshire-1192019?ITO=newsnow
Log found in golf course discovered to be 4,000-year-old bronze-age coffin

The wooden coffin carved from a single length of oak was found on a Lincolnshire golf course in 2018 and has now been revealed as the last resting place of a high-status individual from the Bronze Age

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