A rediscovered copy of a book bound in human skin is going on display at a museum in England, reports BBC News’ Laura Foster.

Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...

A book bound in the skin of one of the UK's most notorious murderers is to go on display after being found in a museum's ...

Laura Foster visited the museum for this edition of Secret Suffolk to find out more about The Red Barn Murder.

The cover of a book held at a Suffolk museum was recently found to be made from the skin of a man hanged for a notorious ...

The Moyse's Hall Museum in the UK has recently found a book from the 1800s, that some book lovers want to ‘burn’! ‘Why’, you ...

A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...

Unlike the first Corder book, the skin is only on the book's binding and corners. Covering books in human skin is known as anthropodermic bibliopegy. Books were often created in the 19th Century ...

Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books with leather made from human skin. Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum just discovered a book bound with the skin of notorious killer ...

The Suffolk books bound in human skin The story of the 1827 murder in Polstead, Suffolk, shocked Georgian Britain. Since then, it has been the subject of many films, books, plays and folk songs.