 | William Burke and William Hare, pictured at Burke's trial The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen murders committed over a period of about... 65 KB (8,750 words) - 22:28, 25 April 2024 |
Burke & Hare is a 2010 British black comedy film, loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders of 1828. Directed by John Landis from an original screenplay... 15 KB (1,626 words) - 10:13, 29 April 2024 |
starring Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, and Glynn Edwards. It is based on the true story of the Burke and Hare murders, and was the last film to be directed... 11 KB (1,296 words) - 12:35, 19 April 2024 |
 | Robert Knox (section West Port murders) December 1862) was a Scottish anatomist and ethnologist best known for his involvement in the Burke and Hare murders. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Knox eventually... 42 KB (5,329 words) - 15:13, 27 March 2024 |
Burke & Hare were serial murderers in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1827 and 1828. Burke & Hare may also refer to: Burke & Hare (1972 film), a British horror... 349 bytes (73 words) - 15:29, 24 October 2021 |
The Body Snatcher (category Cultural depictions of William Burke and Hare) surgeon Robert Knox (1791–1862) around the time of the notorious Burke and Hare murders in 1828. A group of friends are having a few drinks when an eminent... 6 KB (610 words) - 11:43, 5 May 2024 |
London Burkers (category 1830s murders in London) on the notorious Burke and Hare murders. They came to prominence in 1831 for murdering victims to sell to anatomists, by luring and drugging them at their... 12 KB (1,539 words) - 10:52, 14 October 2023 |
 | loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders, Fisher starred opposite Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as a young former prostitute and the love interest of... 54 KB (4,668 words) - 05:48, 2 May 2024 |
 | Andy Serkis (section Filmography and accolades) cast as William Hare, with Simon Pegg as Burke, in the John Landis black comedy film Burke and Hare based on the Burke and Hare murders in Scotland in... 57 KB (4,838 words) - 12:56, 13 May 2024 |
 | Alice Roberts (section Early life and education) Mark Hamilton) A Necessary Evil?, a one-hour documentary about the Burke and Hare murders. In August 2010, she presented a one-hour documentary on BBC Four... 44 KB (3,886 words) - 16:42, 29 March 2024 |
Anatoly Moskvin (section Personal life and education) Disappeared. Grave robbery Body snatching Property crime Carl Tanzler Burke and Hare murders Ed Gein Kashin, Oleg (3 November 2011). "In Nizhny Novgorod, the... 23 KB (2,463 words) - 08:25, 21 March 2024 |
 | Resurrectionists in the United Kingdom (category Persons involved with death and dying) corpses, were commonplace. Matters came to a head following the Burke and Hare murders of 1828. Parliament responded by setting up the 1828 Select Committee... 42 KB (5,387 words) - 08:09, 4 November 2023 |
 | Paterson) who it later transpired was murdered (see Burke and Hare murders), with Knox thought complicit in the murder. She was in Knox's dissecting rooms... 27 KB (3,041 words) - 23:16, 5 February 2024 |
 | rent. Community views of these immigrants were polarised by the Burke and Hare murders on Tanners Close at West Port (the west end of the Grassmarket) in... 21 KB (2,894 words) - 16:54, 15 April 2024 |
 | William Burke (Burke and Hare murders) (1792–1829), Irish-Scots serial killer William Burke (author) (1729–1798), English pamphleteer William J. Burke (1862–1925)... 69 KB (8,140 words) - 07:10, 7 May 2024 |
Burke and Hare murders in Edinburgh. Rebus also wanders into the Surgeons' Hall, where he meets several forensic pathologists of his acquaintance and... 5 KB (515 words) - 15:27, 12 June 2023 |
The Anatomist (section Film and theatre) Ravenscroft Several fictionalized accounts of the Burke and Hare murders, including: A 1930 play by James Bridie, and subsequent 1937 television treatment A 1939... 867 bytes (131 words) - 21:03, 4 January 2023 |
Burke may refer to: William Burke (pirate) (died 1699), Irish pirate active in the Caribbean, associate of William Kidd William Burke (Burke and Hare... 1 KB (229 words) - 17:31, 26 April 2022 |
 | established in 1919. It was also the birthplace of William Burke, notorious for the Burke and Hare murders. The civil parish of Urney contains the following townlands:... 4 KB (298 words) - 15:50, 4 February 2022 |
 | Moffat (category Towns in Dumfries and Galloway) evidence against William Burke in the Burke and Hare murders. John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer and road-builder, died in Moffat and is buried there. In... 18 KB (1,976 words) - 12:25, 30 April 2024 |
 | likely made of camel, horse, or goat hide Trial transcripts of the Red Barn Murder, reportedly bound in its perpetrator's skin Blood Quran Dark academia Dark... 45 KB (2,572 words) - 21:57, 4 April 2024 |
accused of murdering her boyfriend by poison Helen McDougal, in relation to the Burke and Hare murders Alan Peters, in relation to the murder of Maxwell... 17 KB (2,203 words) - 01:23, 14 March 2024 |
through part of his adult years Burke & Hare (2010) – British black comedy film, loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders in 1828 Carlos (2010) – French/German... 244 KB (28,105 words) - 13:14, 10 May 2024 |
 | Cholera riots (category Riots and civil disorder in Russia) similar to the Burke and Hare murders of 1828: A cry was raised of 'Burn the house; down with the burking shop'. Shavings, fir, tar, barrels and staves, were... 10 KB (1,234 words) - 20:05, 23 August 2023 |
 | 1788 doctors' riot (category Riots and civil disorder in New York City) unrest in the United States Burke and Hare murders Caroline de Costa; Francesca Miller (2011). "American resurrection and the 1788 New York doctors' riot"... 9 KB (1,072 words) - 10:33, 19 March 2024 |
loosely on the story of the Burke and Hare murders details the fall from grace of a young anatomist, Gabriel Swift. And the fourth, Clade, uses the story... 7 KB (624 words) - 20:52, 15 April 2024 |
life of Saint Francis of Assisi Burke & Hare (1972) – horror film based on the true life story of the Burke and Hare murders The Castle of Purity (Spanish:... 220 KB (19,447 words) - 18:47, 20 April 2024 |
 | Capital punishment in the United Kingdom (redirect from Capital punishment in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) Edinburgh Gaol for his participation in the Burke and Hare murders. 8 September 1830: William Wall, John Rowley and Richard Clarke were hanged at Kenn, Somerset... 90 KB (11,418 words) - 17:37, 19 April 2024 |
studies and obsessively begins searching for an elixir of life, using female hormones taken from fresh cadavers supplied by murderers Burke and Hare, reasoning... 10 KB (1,041 words) - 12:42, 16 April 2024 |
 | works of popular culture. The events of the Burke and Hare murders, involving Edinburgh lecturer Robert Knox and the anatomical department, have made a wide... 198 KB (16,812 words) - 23:23, 13 May 2024 |