The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857 9780190870232

In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in Kent in south-east England. A brief handwritten note stuck inside the

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The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857
9780190870232

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