Two Centuries of Historical Memory? December 11, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
In the 1980s Beach read an article on Ronald Reagan that described the then President (born in 1911) talking to veterans of Gettysburg as a child. It was a spark on kindling for the historic imagination. Here is a striking nineteenth-century equivalent that has given Beach much pleasure today. It was recorded in 1851 in […]
Twelve Best History Montages October 13, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
By history montage we refer to short length runs of images and film available on youtube often with attractive music in the background. They are typically put together by amateurs and their productions standards and their production values can be a little shaky. However, often late in the evening or when he wants his daughters […]
Two-Hundred-Year-Old Memories of Dunbar? August 15, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beach did a horrible thing yesterday and made fun of the supposed oral transmission of information across four millennia. Even at New Grange that sort of thing seems unlikely. But he does have a lot of sympathy with the possibility that stray details might make it through two or three centuries in a rural community, […]
