Resting in Peace - a Talk by Joanne Vigor-Mungovin

Rest in Pieces!Hear the stories of John Massey, whose body was displayed in the gibbet outside Bilstone village in Leicestershire for 18 years after killing his wife; James Cook from Leicester, the last man to be gibbeted in the country; and Hannah Read from Foxton, the final female in Leicester to undergo the gruesome practice of being dissected after her execution for the murder of her husband in 1825.