Prince Albert, Stations and bodysnatchers

of interesting upcoming lectures:

The Bodysnatcher Haunts: A Guided Walk
Sunday 29th June, 2pm Old Operating Theatre Museum
9a St Thomas St London SE1 9RY

To carry out the anatomy at the heart of medical teaching, the students and
tutors of the United Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital required human material.
until the Anatomy Act of 1832 was enforced, the Hospital's scramble for
anatomical supplies encouraged the Resurrectionist gangs to dig up the
dead! Trace the secretive 19th century
Bodysnatcher's tour, ferrying the newly dead across London.

* London's Changing Stations (Bishopsgate Institute)
This talk will explore London stations over the past twenty years and
provide a glimpse at things to come.
on Tuesday, 8 July at 19:00:00
More details:
http://www.lecturelist.org/content/view_lecture/5424?mail=y


* Prince Albert and Early Photography (Gabor Suite Room 611)
Frances Dimond will consider the work of Prince Albert and the Society
of Arts in regard to the early days of photography
on Wednesday, 9 July at 24:30:00
More details:
http://www.lecturelist.org/content/view_lecture/5388?mail=y


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