This is a recording of the talk held earlier today at 10am (UK)
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About the Talk: Burke and Hare were well known resurrection men who supplied fresh corpses to the Edinburgh Anatomical Schools often by murder. Each London anatomical student needed at least three bodies during their training. The only legitimate supply was from the gallows which yielded just 52 bodies in 1831. So was Edinburgh the only place to have seen murder just for the trade in human corpses or did London have it's own burkers
About the speaker: Alec Tritton has been a family historian for over 40 years. He was Chairman of the Federation of Family History Societies (2002 to 2006) and for the previous 3 years, the Chairman of the Guild of One-Name Studies.He has also been Vice-Chairman of SoG (Society of Genealogists) and is currently Chairman of the Halsted Trust. He teaches the Records of Nonconformity and Records of Employment courses for Pharos Tutors as well as lecturing on the SoG Intermediate and Advanced Family History Courses. In 2026 he was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists and is a long standing member of the Kent Family History Society.
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