#human leather:

Bewitched isn't what it used to be.

Workplace locations of witches and serpents show how fake folklore hid England's food-distribution network.

Mind the gaps to uncover more sites of the medieval skin trade.

One of the oldest elite games has just three rules: fuck it, cook it, eat it.

In the Beginning was the Word. And the Word was "Vellum".

Management of madness before large insane asylums reveals how early human artificial intelligence failures were monitored before 1740.

England's missing castles hint at two well-kept secrets.

A map of pre-Victorian Grimsby helps us understand why mystery and mimic plays were suppressed.

Modern innovation turned balloons into airships. Modern alchemy developed new sources for lighter-than-air gas.

More than 10,000 of 12,500 market crosses were destroyed in Britain. Why?

Medieval 'hospitals' weren't hospitals