It started innocently enough. In preparation for our launch of Don Dunstan, Intimacy and Liberty, we've been throwing some costume ideas around the office. Seventies, defs. This is the man who made those hot pink shorts so famous (see the book cover for proof). There's also that mini yukata from his resignation. The paisley blazer at his 70th. Or whatever it is that's going on here. How would we ever live up to his sartorial standards?…
Continue readingIt's true: Geoffrey Abbott's Amazing True Stories of Female Executions contains some of the best collected tales of martyrs, murderesses and madwomen you'll ever read. It's also pretty grisly stuff. There's the Reading Baby-farmer, who tied ribbons around the necks of her young victims and dumped them in the Thames, and the Yorkshire Witch, who sold potions for good health that turned out, incidentally, to be fatal. Almost worse than the crimes themselves, are the…
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