Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy

27/9/2005

Burke and Hare - murder for money?

EDINBURGH flourished in the early 19th century. Basking in the afterglow of the Scottish Enlightenment, the city’s reputation as a centre of science and progress was assured. The Industrial Revolution was generating wealth and improving the city.

Even as Edinburgh could justly claim to be one of the lights of the newly modern world, these splendours concealed a darker side. Scotland’s most notorious serial killers - Burke and Hare - were born in the shadows of Edinburgh’s achievements. for more click here

 
 

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