Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…received: drbeachcombing At yahoo DOT com Thanks to Invisible for help. Filip 31 Aug 2016 As far as snowball atrocities are concerned, “Ilustrowany Kuryer Codzienny” (a newspaper from Cracow) reported…

…invisible library: a ghost summoned up by greedy medievalists and star-mad monks. Still in the last fifty years unexpected plums have been fished out of monastic libraries. Perhaps, in the…

Dear Reader, The third birthday of Beachcombing’s Bizarre History has just passed. A huge thanks to all those friends and correspondents who send in the material that really matters on…

…I know.’ The death of the custom or did it hold out somewhere in the shires? drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com *** 24 Dec 2012: Invisible writes in: Seeing the…

…Perhaps it was just there a couple of weeks and our author was a provincial visitor? drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com 1 Oct 2013: Kenton and Invisible write in with…

…recently, and wrote an article about it that, if you’ve not heard of it and you’re interested, you can read on kithraskrystalkave The Invisible: Jim, the ironworker, opens a very…

…Invisible writes: ‘On the oral tradition. My great-great-great-Grandfather Oliver was killed at the battle of Chickamauga, September 19, 1863 leaving a widow and two daughters. His wife received a Civil…

…provocative sacred art from sacred buildings: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com *** 26 Nov 2012: Invisible writes in with these considerations: I think the statue in the Ely Lady Chapel…

…read this far and who finds fairies interesting might want to click on this bit of delirium with thanks to Wade and Invisible. Thanks also to Invisible for The Faune!…

…corn from the mouth of the sacks open for sale, and, much to his amazement, accosted hi. Onhis inquiry how she could recognize him, since he was invisible to all…

***Dedicated to Invisible*** Part of humanity’s long flirtation with the landscape has been the idea that a given locality is a woman. While not universal this repeats itself in many…

…misconception. ‘ Thanks Diana! 28 july 2013: Invisible writes in: Blackbirds at Prayer. Here is the latest form the Parkhurst correspondent: “For the last ten years millions of blackbirds have…

…whole point of the collapse of Roman life was that Romano-Britons (or the post-Romans) became invisible in archaeological terms. They stopped using coins, they stopped using bricks and tiles, they…

…been advised by one who wastes too much time watching children’s films… *** 21 June 2013: Invisible writes in: Your post mentioning Arrietty jogged my memory at how much I…

…to his conduct. ‘White ladies’, and wonderful persons with rustling silk dresses or clanking chaings, and invisible coaches and four that drive round gravel walks at night are quite common…