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Just in time for Halloween, Rare Books and Music Curator Dr Susannah Helman explores some of our rare editions of The Raven for November’s rare book of the month.

Waverley Council invites the community to join us in a new era of discovery at Waverley Cemeteries where every grave tells a story. The Council has

. Source: Strand Magazine, public domain The mysterious root poison devil’s foot root ( Radix pedis diaboli), first seen in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot, has not yet found its way either into the pharmacopoeia or into the literature of toxicology. Then again, it would not be as famous as it is today if it had instead appeared in the toxicological literature of the time. The devil’s foot root remains fictitious – but it masks historical realities. As Dr Sterndale, the tale’s criminal-physician, reports, the poison is found nowhere in Europe “save for on...