Take a grisly tour of Edinburgh in the footsteps of its two famous body snatchers Once home to notorious serial killers William Burke and William Hare, the Scottish city reveals how they got rich ...

THE Edinburgh Dungeon have added a Burke and Hare themed addition to their Halloween tour to mark the anniversary of the pair’s final murder.

Ah, the magic of movie making! With John Landis’ Burke and Hare filming as we speak, the lovely streets of Edinburgh have been transformed to their former, darker selves! Over on The Moving ...

The Burke and Hare movie was filmed at a host of landmarks around the city, including Edinbugh Castle and the Anatomy Museum at the Medical School of Edinburgh University.

Two of the most infamous criminals in Victorian Britain, Burke and Hare have been the subject of several horror films, some great, some ghastly. The post The Cinematic Legacy of Graverobbers Burke ...

The names of Burke and Hare are linked to a particularly gruesome period in Scottish - and Edinburgh - history.

In 1828 Edinburgh, Irish immigrants William Burke (Simon Pegg) and William Hare (Andy Serkis) strike it rich when Hare’s elderly tenant dies of natural causes. Learning there’s a ready market ...

The names of William Burke and William Hare are inextricably linked to a particularly gruesome period of Scottish history. In the late 1820s they supplied Edinburgh’s anatomists with fresh ...

IT is almost 200 years since their crimes but Burke and Hare remain two of the world’s most infamous serial killers.

William Burke and William Hare were thought to have killed at least 16 people in the Capital in the early 1800s – and their legacy casts a long shadow over the city.

‘Sweeney Todd” meets Ealing Studios in the so- so black comedy “Burke and Hare.” The title characters (Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis) are a pair of Irish con men who, in a sple… ...

During the 19th Century the Scottish capital of Edinburgh was leading the way in medical advancements. None more so than in the study of the anatomy of the human body, but this in turn lead to a ...