After expounding my views on dissection last week, I had planned to give the 1752 Murder Act, anatomy and salacious stories about surgeons a wide berth, but events have conspired against me as my week has been dominated by talk of organs! Let me explain. It all started with the worrying, but not hugely unsurprising, allegations that …
Author: paddyxavier
My name is Dr. Patrick Low. I received my PhD in December 2019 for a thesis on capital punishment and post-mortem punishments in the North-East of England between 1752-1878. I am particularly interested in the reporting of executions in the press, postdeath practices on the body of the executed, the execution crowd and burial procedures. I have appeared on a number of episodes of BBC's Murder, Mystery and My Family and am available for other projects relating to my studies. I also created the website www.criminalcorpses.com for a brilliant Leicester University & Wellcome Trust Project. I am not quite as pretentious as my photo suggests. patrickxavierlow@gmail.com
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