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The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain — The Public Domain Review

As populations flocked to city centres in the 19th century, church cemeteries began to overflow with the dead. Roger Luckhurst exhumes the history of this period, when anatomists fuelled a body-snatching trade led by “r…

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