DARK LONDON (HB)

Who were the London Burkers, whose ringleader confessed to stealing and selling nearly 1,000 dead bodies to keen 1830s anatomists? What was 'The Whitechapel Tragedy' of 1875, and who was its unfortunate headless victim? Why was there so much public panic about crime in Victorian London, and how did the city's notoriously rough prisons, courts, workhouses and houses of correction deal with its perpetrators? Dark London explores the history of the city's seamier side, picking out the most scandalous, curious and bizarre aspects of London's fascinating underbelly.