Tag: Inveraray Jail

• The faces of Burke and Hare

   Doon the close and up the stair Butt and ben wi Burke and Hare Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief And Knox the boy that buys the beef! Found: the faces of Burke and Hare The forgotten faces of two of Scotland’s most infamous murderers have been discovered among a number of macabre artefacts languishing […]

  Saesnes

  Thursday, 23rd February, 2012

  Anatomy, Books, Museums

  1833 Anatomy Act, Inveraray Jail, phrenology, Robert Knox, Royal College of Surgeons