The Diggum-Uppers: Body Snatching and Grave Robbing in the West Midlands

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They were called: Diggum Uppers; Resurrectionists; Body Snatchers, and Grave Robbers.
Their trade was to keep the ever-demanding medical schools supplied with the bodies of the recently deceased. But they weren't confined to Edinburgh and London.
They ranged across the West Midlands from the heavy industrial areas of Birmingham, the Black Country, and the Potteries, to the rural shires of Herefordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire.
Discover the identities of the most infamous resurrectionists of the West Midlands; the medical men who supported them ; the methods used to stop them, and the terrible truth of what happened when body snatching and grave robbing were outlawed.