#OnThisDay in London's radical history, 1801: a mini-riot in Wych St (Aldwych), as a crowd attack a house where surgeons are dissecting bodies. Corpses of executed criminals were handed over for dissection; friends of the deceased often fought for them to be buried without being dismembered For more on the battle between medical establishment and the 'mob' over the bodies of the hanged, see: https://wp.me/p74yfw-iT