🎧 Death, Dissection & Grave Robbing
🎧 Betwixt the Sheets • 44m
Genital warts fashioned into necklaces, teeth harvested from the battlefield and blood vessels fashioned from wax: these are the things that you might find inside Edinburgh’s Surgeons’ Hall Museums.
But who did they belong to? Kate is talking to Thomas Elliot, head of learning and interpretation, to find out.
*WARNING this episode includes themes of an adult nature*
Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Lewis Mason.
Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society. A podcast by History Hit.
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