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Burke and Hare

Burke and Hare

by Terry Newman and Joe Siddons
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 03/10/2017

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This is the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Scottish grave robbers who weren't Scottish and didn't rob graves. They were actually Irish, and as robbing graves to supply the needs of Edinburgh's anatomists proved to be rather hard work, they just took to murdering people-usually their neighbors-for profit. In collaboration with their common-law wives, they set about supplying corpses for Dr. John Knox, an eminent Scottish surgeon, with considerable enthusiasm and gusto. The play follows their business exploits from small beginnings, through their days of peak output, and on to the final reckoning-set against a world that is becoming recognizably modern.
ISBN:
9781538488737
9781538488737
Category:
Uncategorized
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
03-10-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Terry Newman

Terry Newman worked in the fashion industry for more than 20 years, both as an editor at i-D, Attitude, and Self Service and as a contributing writer for newspapers including the Guardian, the Independent, the Times, and the Sunday Times. She has also written and presented fashion programs in the United Kingdom for Channel 4 (She's Gotta Have It and Slave).

The author of Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore and Legendary Artists and the Clothes they Wore (Harper Design), she has contributed to books including i-D's Fashion Now, Fashion Now 2, and Soul i-D. She currently lectures at the University for the Creative Arts in Epsom, England and lives in London with her husband and two children.

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