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And working from the shadows is nobleman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (Jérémie Renier), a savvy statesman who’s ...
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has cautiously and efficiently handled 100 days of an uncertainty that is far from over.
Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...
He wrote a series of witty police procedurals set in Victorian England and then turned to the present, introducing a ...
Moyse’s Hall Museum in Suffolk has put on display a book bound in the skin of William Corder, who was executed for the Red ...
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 ...
In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.
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ZME Science on MSNA Forgotten 200-Year-Old Book Bound in a Murderer’s Skin Was Just Found in a Museum OfficeNow, nearly two centuries later, a second such book has emerged.
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The Times of Israel on MSNHow a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlordIn new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...
Museum staff believe the binding and corners of this book are made using the skin of 19th Century murderer William Corder A book bound in the skin of one of the UK's most notorious murderers is to go ...
Museum staff believe the binding and corners of this book are made using the skin of 19th Century murderer William Corder A book bound in the skin of one of the UK's most notorious murderers is to ...
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