Boneyards and Bodysnatchers

Name: Boneyards and Bodysnatchers
Start: 2024-10-16T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-16T21:30:00+01:00
Location: Old Bailey, London, United Kingdom

Schedule

Wed Oct 16 2024 at 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Old Bailey, London, United Kingdom | London, EN

Rest in Peace, so the old saying goes. Except many of the dead in early 19th century London...didn't.
Imagine living in a time when you feared for your dearly departed. Watch towers. Cemetery guns. Round the clock vigils. Anything was deployed to ensure the dead didn't end up on the anatomist's table.
Join public historian Sheldon K. Goodman of the Cemetery Club as he explores the City of London, where tales of grave robbing, so-called resurrection men and other tales of horror connect to a grim and terrible practice, from dreadful pubs to public execution.
The tour will begin in the open space outside the Old Bailey. The closest transport links are City Thameslink via National Rail, Blackfriars on the Circle and District Line or Farringdown on the Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan and Circle Lines.