Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
Visit us
What’s on
Stories
Collections
Get involved
About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account
Search for anything
Search
Home
|
Collections
William Burke
British murderer (1792–1829)
Wikidata
Source:
Wikidata
Field of work
Murder
Mass murder
On this page
On this page
Images from the collections
Works from the collections
Frequent collaborators
Related topics
Images from the collections
Images featuring William Burke
8 images from works
Works from the collections
Works by this person
Works by this person
Works featuring this person
Works featuring this person
4 works
Books
Online
Supplement to the trial of William Burke & Helen M'Dougal : containing the whole legal proceedings against William Hare, in order to bring him to trial for the murder of James Wilson, or Daft Jamie. With an appendix of curious and interesting information, regarding the late West-Port murders. Illustrated by a lithographic print of Mrs Hare and her child, as they appeared in the witness box / [William Burke].
|
William Burke
|
Date: 1829
Books
Online
Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal : before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Wednesday, December 24. 1828, for the murder of Margery Campbell, or Docherty / Taken in short hand by Mr John Macnee, writer. With an illustrative preface.
|
William Burke
|
Date: 1829
Books
Online
West Port murders, or an authentic account of the atrocious murders committed by Burke and his associates; containing a full account of all the extraordinary circumstances connected with them. Also, a report of the trial of Burke and M'Dougal. With a description of the execution of Burke, his confessions, and memoirs of his accomplices, including the proceedings against Hare, &c.
|
William Burke
|
Date: 1829
Books
Online
West Port murders, or an authentic account of the atrocious murders committed by Burke and his associates; containing a full account of all the extraordinary circumstances connected with them. Also, a report of the trial of Burke and M'Dougal. With a description of the execution of Burke, his confessions, and memoirs of his accomplices, including the proceedings against Hare, &c.
|
William Burke
|
Date: 1829
View all
25 works
Pictures
Portraits of William Burke (1792-1829) and Helen McDougal (b. c. 1795), on trial in Edinburgh in 1828 for the West Port murders. Coloured etching, c. 1829.
|
Reference: 25731i
Books
Online
The trial of Wm. Burke & Helen M'Dougal, on Wednesday, December 24, 1828 : in the High Court of Justiciary, before the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Clerk, and Lords Pitmilly, Meadowbank, and Mackenzie, on an indictment for the wilful murder of Mary Patterson, James Wilson and Madgy M'Gonegal ... in the Canongate and West Port, Edinburgh, for the purpose of sale to the medical faculty.
|
Date: [1829?]
Books
Burke & Hare / Alanna Knight.
|
Alanna Knight
|
Date: 2007
Pictures
Online
Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829.
|
Date: [1829]
|
Reference: 662572i
Pictures
Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
|
William Heath
|
Date: April 1829
|
Reference: 12226i
View all
Frequent collaborators
William Hare
M'Dougal, Helen, 1795?-
Related topics
Grave Robbing
Body snatching
History, 19th Century
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Costume
Asphyxia
Murderers
Catholic emancipation
Close modal window