News from the dead: an Oxford resurrection
The true story of a 17th-century miracle on the gallows
It was Anne Greene’s great good fortune that, after she had been hanged in the castle yard at Oxford, her body was given to the university’s physicians for dissection.
In the summer of 1650, Anne, age…
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