Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

A Happy 1st Mar to All Readers and Any Random Visitors! Feb was cold in the Beachcombing household. We slept four in a bed in for five days when the temperature dipped below 10 degrees. But now all is changed. The tortoises are coming out and rabbit is mating with his water dispenser: in short, […]

A Happy 1st Feb to All Readers! Jan has now passed and strangehistory continues to grow. This was the month that Beachcombing published (electronically) his first volume and March should (?) see the first proper publication on this site. Negotiations are ongoing with a local artisan printer. Beach hopes in the end to draw even […]

  A Happy 1st Jan to All Readers! 2011 was the year that Beachcombing moved off word press and ventured, however, tentatively onto twitter: Strange History has rated between the sixth and the third history blog on google.com since the summer with between 1500 and 2500 hits a day. 2012 will see the first Beachcombing […]

Fraternal greetings to all readers!                                                             1 dec Beachcombing has had a bit of a tense month with various family members falling ill and repeated dreams about escaping from prison. This blog has, as so often, been a welcome distraction, growing appreciably  in terms of regular visitors: indeed, a correspondent wrote in a couple of weeks […]

Fraternal greetings to historians, archaeologists, anomalists and bizarrists! First of all an apology is due: Beachcombing fell behind on correspondence in October. He enters the second half of the term contrite and determined to do better. Of the posts in the past month Cocaine and Ancient Egypt drummed up the most visitors, though surprisingly little […]

Dear Readers, Autumn flu continues (hence the ambulance on the beach) so this will be a very short introduction to the most important emails of the month. Ricardo sends in an important notice from JSTOR opening the flood gates of knowledge to the plebs (that is you and me)… At least a fraction. Also if […]

1 September Dear Friends, this month has been an insane period as Beachcombing wrote, sleeping four hours a night, various academic tomes and articles. Apologies for late and short replying to emails then. However, it’s all ending. Tomorrow he has to go to speak to 200 students: the terror is mounting. Then just eight days […]

  1 August 2011 Friends and Bizarrists, First, a change in the website, one of several that will be taking place in the coming months. There is now a bizarre history news list on the lower right margin. This needs to be worked out better – in terms of position and mechanism – but Beach’s […]

Dear Readers, 1 July June was the month in which Jessica the beloved family aupair went home, the month that a clan of mice set up shop under the stairs and were defeated by peanut butter and humane mouse traps and the month that Beach had several troubling dreams about a Mesopotamian mother goddess called […]

Dear Readers, 1 June Here is Beachcombing’s round up of exceptional emails and comments from the month of May. After a year at this game – Beach’s blogging anniversary passed a couple of days ago – he now wonders whether the comments are not of more value than the posts. After all, ten thousand words […]

Dear Readers, 1 May Here is Beachcombing’s round up of exceptional emails and comments from the month of April. He cannot list here all the many ideas for posts he has received. However, he hopes to come to these with time. The most popular post this month was the Meson del Fierro and there are […]

To date, I’ve put up 322 posts and built up traffic of c. 1400 hits a day with about five hundred daily visitors to my home page: ‘the regulars’ as Mrs B calls them.  I have also made many pleasant acquaintances by email – drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com – and I have enjoyed myself […]

              Dear Readers, 1 April Here is Beachcombing’s monthly round up of exceptional emails and comments. Unfortunately this post was accidentally published a couple of hours early through characteristic incompetence on Beachcombing’s part and he has not yet got all the emails and comments in place, which will now have to […]

  Dear Readers, 1 March Beachcombing is coming out of hibernation with a certain relief. In the next fifteen days or so there will be a switch from WordPress to the new site aided by a redirect. More anon. In the meantime, here are some of the best comments and emails from the last month with the relevant […]

Dear Readers, 1 Feb 2011 Some tawdry bits of news. It is now the season to search for a new web address – Beachcombing books cannot be sold on WordPress… – and so Beach is looking for the right name. Is there anyone versed in the dark arts of SEO who can give advice on a […]