R. E. Sample argues that preserved bodies are history’s most direct witnesses. Museums are now hiding or reburying them amid repatriation pressure, risking a sanitised past and a shrinking public right to see and learn from human remains.

R.E. Sample charts the changing Aesthetics of England, as viewed from afar. She speaks to an England that looks far more 'global, diverse, and fragmented' than the red phone boxes littered nation etched into most people's cultural memory.