Series of 16 killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.
Burning of women in England
Burning was a legal punishment imposed on women found guilty of high treason, petty treason or heresy. Over a period of several centuries, female convicts were publicly burnt at the stake, sometimes alive, for a range of activities including coining and mariticide.
Burns Cottage
Birthplace of Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scotland's national poet.
Burying in Woollens Acts
There were three Burying in Woollens Acts passed during the 17th century, to support the domestic woollen trade in the face of increasing competition from foreign imports
Buttock Mail
Fine payable to the ecclesiastical courts for the crime of fornication, as an alternative to a session on the stool of repentance.
Byrom, Allen, Sedgwick and Place
The first bank in Manchester, founded in 1771. It collapsed in 1788 when one of its major borrowers declared bankruptcy.
Caleb Wright
Factory owner and Liberal Member of Parliament, was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire.
Caphouse Colliery
Ex-colliery in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868
Act of Parliament that put an end to public executions for murder in the United Kingdom.
Captain Rudolph
Redirected to Charlotte de Berry.