Curio: History, Museums, and the Things We Put in Them

002 - The Burke Pocketbook


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Shan fills Jaybee in on all the gruesome details of the Burke and Hare murders, and the horrific ways they're remembered in some museum collections. We're talking human leather (ew). Grave robbing, dissection, and human salads. Listen if you dare. 

 

 

Resources:

 

Listen to another podcast! 

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/most-notorious-a-true-crime-history-podcast/e/50827518

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/book-bound-in-serial-killers-human-skin-2014-11

 

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-lindsey-fitzharris/holding-a-book-bound-in-human-skin_b_3772196.html

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27903742

 

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/exm3bk/binding-books-with-human-skin-135

 

https://books.google.ca/books?id=8LoDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=burke+and+hare&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjy_o3QkI3aAhUD2IMKHRztDdM4ChDoAQgzMAM#v=onepage&q=burke%20and%20hare&f=false

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/feb/01/burke-hare-masks

 

https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/anatomy-280212

 

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-death-mask-of-william-burke-47205

 

Find "The Anatome Murders" &c by Lisa Rosner in a library near you:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/anatomy-murders-being-the-true-and-spectacular-history-of-edinburghs-notorious-burke-and-hare-and-of-the-man-of-science-who-abetted-them-in-the-commission-of-their-most-heinous-crimes/oclc/320800017

 

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Curio: History, Museums, and the Things We Put in ThemBy Shan Gilbert