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What if technology’s greatest promise isn’t to replace us, but to make us more human?For decades, the financial industry has chased a single mantra: efficiency. But in our rush to make every transaction seamless and immediate, we made a devastating compromise. We automated the relationship...

On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, is found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The community is appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the surgeon reports that Harriet was around six months pregnant. Drawing on the coroner’s reports and witness testimonies, Elizabeth Haynes builds a compelling picture of Harriet’s final hours through the eyes of those closest to her and the last people to see her alive.