Crime & punishment
Jamie Wilson's mother's dream
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| English ballads > Crime & punishment > Jamie Wilson's mother's dream |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74892844 |
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| Description | Jamie Wilson, or 'Daft Jamie', was the penultimate victim of the notorious murderers Burke and Hare, who killed sixteen times on the streets of Edinburgh to provide the anatomist Robert Knox with bodies for medical research. |
| Shelfmark | Crawford.EB.2047 |
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| Description | Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust. |
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