Night of the Bodysnatcher

Surgeons and their students in the 18th and early 19th century, needed increased access to bodies for learning about anatomy. But with legal supplies of corpses limited, where could they get their subjects from?

A talk in the dark atmosphere of the Old Operating Theatre on the gruesome profession of the Resurrectionists, the men who supplied the dissecting rooms of London from the graves of the city.

Tricks of the their trade and the stories of their gruesome work by bodysnatching expert Kirsty Chilton, Assistant Curator at the Old Operating Theatre Museum.