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Book Review: Rummage by Emily Cockayne

Terra Infirma

According to Emily Cockayne’s enjoyable and anecdotal history of recycling and reuse, much of the iron collected for the war effort wasn’t suitable for munitions but was quietly dumped in the Thames estuary where, rumour has it, it confused ships’ compasses for decades.