# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Diggum Uppers : Body Snatching and Grave Robbing in the West Midlands
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 02:30 pm – Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join renowned historian, Kevin on these chillier days for a talk on the history of body snatching and grave robbing in the West Midlands.About this EventThey were called Diggum Uppers, resurrectionists, body snatchers, and grave robbers. Their trade was to keep the ever-demanding medical schools supplied with the bodies of the recently dead. They ranged across the West Midlands, from the heavy industrial areas of Birmingham, the Black Country, and the Potteries to rural Herefordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. Discover the identities of the most infamous Diggum Uppers of the West Midlands; the medical men who supported them; the methods used to stop them, and the terrible truth of what happened when body snatching and grave robbing were outlawed.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/birmingham/the-diggum-uppers-body-snatching-and-grave-robbing-in-the-west-midlands/100001880472085629
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Birmingham
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Wolfson Centre for Archival Research, Level 4, Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND
- **lat**: 52.47975779999999
- **long**: -1.908435
- **full address**: Wolfson Centre for Archival Research, Level 4, Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is The Diggum Uppers : Body Snatching and Grave Robbing in the West Midlands being held?
  - **A:** The Diggum Uppers : Body Snatching and Grave Robbing in the West Midlands takes place on Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 02:30 pm to Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 pm at Wolfson Centre for Archival Research, Level 4, Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing The Diggum Uppers : Body Snatching and Grave Robbing in the West Midlands?
  - **A:** The Diggum Uppers : Body Snatching and Grave Robbing in the West Midlands is organized by Birmingham Archives & Collections (Wolfson Centre).

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