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Dissecting the history and ethics of public autopsy

Historian Andy Grant explains the sinister history of Romford's Gallows corner.

Executed convicts were punished twice when their bodies were caged in iron gibbets to rot and circumvent Christian resurrection.

Funeral schemes come in various forms but work on the same basic idea. They promise a guaranteed payout upon death to cover funeral expenses. The idea of a scheme to provide for a funeral is not new. In 18th century Britain a thriving system of “burial clubs” emerged to assist the poor and working classes to save for a funeral. These clubs were spurred by fears of a “pauper’s funeral” and one’s body being stolen and sold for medical experimentation. But with such schemes came financial fraud — and in some cases far worse crimes. Fears of body snatchers may be a thing of the pas...

The story of Halford's 'flute boy', and what it tells us about the European trade in human remains Posted 1 AprApril 2021 at 7:00pm This skeleton came to Melbourne with the University of Melbourne's first professor of medicine ... and an incredible backstory. ( Share Print text only Cancel At the height of the French Revolution in the late 1700s, a boy sat on the steps of the Notre-Dame cathedral playing a lilting tune on his wooden recorder. Parisians hurried by, occasionally casting a glance towards the child, perhaps throwing a few coins his way. But what may have caused them to stop m...