Harvard University removes human skin binding from book
The binding no longer belongs in the university's collections "due to the ethically fraught nature of the book's origins".
Source: rnz.co.nz
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Harvard University removes human skin binding from book
The book, from the mid-1880s, was reportedly bound with the skin from the body of a female patient.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Book bound with dead woman's skin that has been in Harvard's library for 90 years is finally removed despite scientists confirming the cover was human ten years ago
The Ivy League school first learned of the legitimacy of claims that the book, Destines of the Soul, was covered in actual human skin in 2014.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
B&B rooms at The Beehive in Horringer, near Bury St Edmunds, 'may be the only way to avoid the pub closing for good'
Plans have been submitted for bed and breakfast accommodation at a pub.
Source: suffolknews.co.uk
Mother's Day flower sales benefit palliative care patients | The Wimmera Mail-Times
Chrysanthemums grown for mums by community members raises funds for palliative patients
Source: mailtimes.com.au