Upcoming National Museum of Scotland exhibition.

Sketch of William Burke. From George MacGregor, The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times (1884)

The National Museum of Scotland has announced the upcoming exhibition "Anatomy: A Matter of Death and Life" that will include infamous 19th-century murderers Burke and Hare.

An online journey through the dark world of Burke and Hare.

Lisa Rosner, author of The Anatomy Murders (due out in October), has developed an online slideshow dealing with the nineteenth-century Edinburgh murderers William Burke and William Hare. Rosner discusses the Web site and her book here.

(Hat tip to the AHA blog).

About the image: Rendering of William Burke, ca. 1829. History of Medicine Division, NIH's National Library of Medicine