Events: detail
Gallows, Ghosts and Golden Boys
- Hosted by:
- Wellcome Collection
- Speaker:
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Richard Barnett, author of 'Medical London: City of Disease, City of Cures'
- Starts:
- October 04, 2008 at 12:00 pm
- Ends:
- October 04, 2008 at 02:00 pm
- Location:
- Blackfriars Tube Station, Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4V 4DY United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
Can you keep up with the hectic life of a London medical student at the dawn of the Enlightenment? Breakfast on the steps of Apothecaries’ Hall, buy your textbooks at the book market in the shadow of St Paul’s, lunch in a tavern overlooking the gallows of Newgate prison, choose a cadaver from the hanged murderers and snatched bodies on show in the basement of the local pub, and dissect it in St Bartholomew’s Medical School, and round off your day with a visit to the haunted house on Cock Lane.
With Richard Barnett, author of ‘Medical London: City of Disease, City of Cures’
This is an adapted version of a walk published in ‘Medical London: City of Disease, City of Cures’.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
Please note that this walk starts at Blackfriars Tube station and ends at the Museum of London.
For more information
- Contact person:
- Wellcome Collection Events
- Phone:
- 020 7611 2222
- Email:
- events [ at ] wellcomecollection.org
- Website:
- Gallows, Ghosts and Golden Boys
