Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…States of Europe. Acording to some Churchill was a passionate pro-European and even one of the founding fathers of a United States of Europe. According to others Churchill hated the…

…to Mongol penetration of Europe, which – given that they had a century to push further than they actually did between their own arrival at the gates of Europe in…

…to Europe than from Europe to America. The only exception to this – though it was to become an important one! – would be any Europeans who managed to island…

…here. Then too northern Europe would only be slowly integrated with southern Europe, essentially by trade, invasion (from north to south) and, most importantly, by missionaries. But when we look…

…a greater compliment? So why all the absurd accusations and mud-slinging about the Third Reich? Europe has one overriding problem and that is the European project: the idea that the…

…or European Jewry. But, of course, Europeans themselves merge into surrounding peoples. There is more similarity genetically between a Mediterranean European and someone from the southern part of that sea…

…historical knowledge, I think that a most interesting post would be of the last human sacrifice in Europe (or maybe the UK). I am quite curious about such practices.’ Certainly…

…historical radar: a thirteenth-century discovery Newland and Downland. The Newland and Downland appear in the Icelandic Annals a late medieval complex of records that present many problems but that could…

                Beachcombing always enjoys attempts by Euro-Asia-Africa’s various ethnic factions to claim the discovery of the New World. Put even a gingerly query…

…took a wobbly half century for Europe to pick itself up and move on. Judt is at his best at showing that Europe was only able to deal with the…

…full fiscal union for Europe. If Germany accepted those terms then Bismarck’s dream would be completed. Continental Europe would become a space dominated by Germany in which the weaker southern…

…Morry found nine coins. Many of the reports of the discovery have suggested that Morry came across a cache, with associated picturesque details. This crucial point needs to be further…

…European war. Then, with Europe relatively weak and without Hitler to keep him occupied post Barbarossa, perhaps Stalin would have been tempted to go to war with Europe. Post WW2,…

…a Christian Europe. Indeed, this is the period when Europe comes into existence. The Dark Ages are the id of the western mind, while the renaissance is our facile do-gooding…

…if slavery has mattered in history generally and in European history in particular there is also an unprecedented gap. From about 1000 up to 1500 Europe was perhaps the only…