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Museum Curators Discovered a 19th-Century Book Bound With the Skin of a Notorious Killer
Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...
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How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord
In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...
Book bound in human skin found in museum office
A book bound in the skin of one of the UK's most notorious murderers is to go on display after being found in a museum's ...
‘Bright Circle’ and ‘Margaret Fuller’: The Rise of the Transcendental Woman
Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.
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Museum Curators Discovered a 19th-Century Book Bound With the Skin of a Notorious Killer
They are typically artifacts from within the last century that get misplaced for a few decades. This book in particular was donated by a family with close ties to the surgeon who anatomized Corder ...