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Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...
Now, nearly two centuries later, a second such book has emerged.
The behind-the-scenes workings of a 500-year-old stately home have been uncovered as part of restoration work at Temple ...
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 ...
Covering books in human skin is known as anthropodermic bibliopegy. Books were often created in the 19th Century to punish executed prisoners or by doctors who wanted a keepsake. Deary ...
The recent release of the last reported bunch of classified files about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy ...
Indeed, back in the 19th century we had a similarly intense ... Cut it out and put it in your Scrap-book”). William Henry Dorsey, an astonishingly productive black scrapbooker, produced nearly ...
Chef Chris Bianco visits Rancho Valencia for culinary series Rancho Valencia Resort and Spa will host the next installment of ...
In this analysis, Max Boot revisits Graham Allison’s “Thucydides Trap” theory to warn that the US-China trade war could spiral into something far more dangerous. Boot traces historical parallels - ...
He helped lead the Latin American “boom” of literary fiction in the 1960s, a burst of creativity and stylistic ...