The Diggum Uppers

Museum of Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire:
The Diggum Uppers

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.

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.

About the Speaker

Kevin Goodman is a medical historian and author who has appeared in episodes of "Mysric Britain" for the Smithsonian Channel; "The Black Death" and "The Great Plague" for Channel 5; and documentaries on Medieval medicine and healthcare, dentistry, and surgery for History Hit.

Kevin also delivers presentations on medical and surgical history from prehistory to the Victorians at musuems and heritage sites around the United KIngdom.