Photo: The Four (and Ciano) at Munich February 26, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
One of the great twentieth-century photographs. The four men who dominate Europe in late September 1938 stand side by side. On the left, looking as if he has an umbrella up his bottom, there is Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister and pioneer of Britain’s disastrous experiment with appeasement. Connoisseurs of the British national character will […]
11 Burning Libraries: Book Lovers Beware April 29, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
This blog has pioneered a series of burning libraries: books that didn’t make it (23 to date)… But what about real burning libraries? Libraries that, at some point in Antiquity or the Middle Ages, were gutted by fire, accidental or deliberate. I have included here a list of eleven devastatingly bad ‘burning libraries’ or ‘burning […]
