Roma Fairies at Blackpool November 5, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
There is not much to comment on here, just a very unusual passage in a classic Roma book, The Book of Boswell: Autobiography of a Gypsy (1970). The edition referred to here is the 1973 Penguin. Now to the fairies. Notice how they jump in rather matter of factly. Our author is remembering an idyllic […]
A Strange Camera Obscura at Blackpool March 21, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
The camera obscura was already being written about in ancient times, there is an Italian renaissance illustration of one as well: the best page I’ve found online, if you are new to this, is here. But I’ve recently come across a nineteenth-century example that I simply don’t understand. This comes from a very fine book […]
William Thornber and the Witches, Boggarts, Sorcerers and People of the Fylde June 7, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Part of the StrangeHistory project is to put up sources that for some reason have not made it onto Google Books and the like. In an attempt to do just this Beach spent a long hour typing out, yesterday, 3000 words from William Thornber’s The History of Blackpool and its Neighbourhood (Poulton 1837). I know, […]
