"The Deadly Nevergreen": Public Hangings at Tyburn
Article from The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice on the “Tyburn Tree,” notorious site for public hangings in what is today London:
Beginning in the 18th century, Tyburn became a battleground between the surgeons who needed to procure corpses for dissection and the mob who fought ferociously to protect the dead from this indignity.
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