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Harvard removes human skin from binding of 19th Century book on afterlife

The binding of a book was removed from a Harvard University library after a review found the use of human skin to bound the book to be unethical ....

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Inside the UK's long-lost funicular railway that was once 'cheapest ride in the world'

Despite serving huge crowds - 400,000 in its opening year - the service has not been used in almost a century. Today, some features of the old funicular railway remain ....

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This small Bristol road once had almost 40 pubs

Inns and alehouses proliferated in the city centre in the mid-18th century ....

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Books Bound in Human Skin – The Practice Isn't As Rare As You Might Think!

Anthropodermic bibliopegy refers to the practice of binding books in human skin. According to folk legend, the binding of books (or more appropriately manuscripts, as they were hand-written) in human skin can be traced all the way back to the Middle Ages. ....

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