Latest Scotland history Podcast Episodes

009: Life of a Surgeon - Apothecary 1750-1850: Guest Interview with Suzie Grogan

DiggingUp1800: The Podcast - August 08, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Suzie Grogan The Glamorous Life of a Surgeon Apothecary 1750-1850  My guest today is fellow Pen & Sword author, Suzie Grogan. Suzie’s written three books now but it is her second book, Death, Disease and Dissection that we’re really focusing on in this episode.  Join me as our chat turns to t...

Body Snatching In America: Guest Interview with Chris Woodyard

DiggingUp1800: The Podcast - July 17, 2021 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode, I’m joined by fellow body snatching enthusiast Chris Woodyard, author of the popular series Haunted Ohio as well as the fabulous ‘The Victorian Book of the Dead’. We get down to the basics of body snatching and compare the practice between Britain and America and for us two, no...

008: Body Snatching In America: Guest Interview with Chris Woodyard

DiggingUp1800: The Podcast - July 17, 2021 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode, I’m joined by fellow body snatching enthusiast Chris Woodyard, author of the popular series Haunted Ohio as well as the fabulous ‘The Victorian Book of the Dead’. We get down to the basics of body snatching and compare the practice between Britain and America and for us two, no...

007: Helen Miller & A Body Snatching Tale From Lasswade, Midlothian

DiggingUp1800: The Podcast - July 10, 2021 04:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
This episode is slightly different as I take a look at the story of a female body snatcher based just outside of Edinburgh. Women didn't often get as involved in the body snatching trade, and so it's quite unusual to find a case where the woman has carried out such a prominent role.   Our sto...

06: Digging Deeper: The World of 19th Century Anatomy

DiggingUp1800: The Podcast - June 26, 2021 18:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode I’m joined by Cat Irving, Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall Museum in Edinburgh.  We step into the world of the 19th-century anatomists and look at how the body snatcher would have delivered a cadaver to the back door of Surgeons’ Hall.  We talk about the state of the...

006: Digging Deeper: The World of 19th Century Anatomy: Guest Interview with Cat Irving

DiggingUp1800: The Podcast - June 26, 2021 18:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode I’m joined by Cat Irving, Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall Museum in Edinburgh.  We step into the world of the 19th-century anatomists and look at how the body snatcher would have delivered a cadaver to the back door of Surgeons’ Hall.  We talk about the state of the...

005: Eckford Watch Tower & The Tale Of Dandy Jim

DiggingUp1800: The Podcast - June 11, 2021 18:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In This Episode: We travel to the Scottish Borders, to a small village called Eckford and hear a short tale from 1829 that inspired the inhabitants of the parish to build a watchtower in the graveyard in an attempt to keep their loved ones safe.  If you'd like to see this episode on my blog ...

004: Making A Killing: How Much Money Did Burke & Hare Make?

DiggingUp1800: The Podcast - June 04, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In This Episode: Notorious murderers Burke and Hare made money from their killing spree by selling the bodies of their victims to anatomist Dr Robert Knox. But how much money did they actually make during their ten-month killing period? Join me in this episode where I take a closer look at th...

003: The Legend Of Half Hangit Maggie Dickson

DiggingUp1800: The Podcast - May 28, 2021 20:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In This Episode: The story of Half Hangit Maggie is legendary in Edinburgh's Grassmarket and is a story universally known about the woman who survived a date with the hangman. Having come across Maggie's story many times while researching body snatching, I decided to take in more detail at th...

002 The Hope Street Body Snatching Scandal : Liverpool

DiggingUp1800: The Podcast - May 14, 2021 16:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In This Episode: In 1826 one of the biggest discoveries of cadavers awaiting shipment to the anatomy schools of Scotland was made at George Dock in Liverpool. In this episode, I take a look at the case in more detail, from the bodysnatchers involved to the total body count and even the types o...

001 Why Did Anatomists Hire Body Snatchers

DiggingUp1800: The Podcast - April 18, 2021 20:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode:  I look at events before the rise of the professional body snatcher, when students and anatomists carried out their own midnight raids in graveyards to get cadavers for the dissecting table.  I also look briefly at the most famous body snatching case of them all, the snatching...

DiggingUp1800: The Trailer

DiggingUp1800: The Podcast - April 15, 2021 19:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Let me take you back to Georgian Britain, to an underworld where the goods bartered were human bodies and discover a darker side to medical history  ‘Body Snatching’ - a subject that only makes it into the history books, if you’re lucky. From anatomy riots, and bodies being hidden in dung heaps...