Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

***Dedicated to Ricardo R and the Kiuchi family*** Beach’s best discovery on the internet this month (courtesy of Ricardo R) has been a fabulous series of Japanese cartoons, describing the…

Beach is getting dangerously topical. First, there was the discovery of Richard III’s bent body, next to Jesus’s wife and now an old obsession of his, Carthaginian child sacrifice is…

…believe they have Richard on their table. For Beach the most interesting part of all this is that the discovery of this hypothetical Richard confirms that history has run away…

…extraordinary historical discovery or more likely a Roman spy novel plot. And they did it day after day after day for two years, longer given that they exceeded the terms…

…knew what the hell to do with. Beach has previously written on the surprisingly late discovery of America and he has pointed out how porous the arctic routes to America…

…answer? I don’t know. However, there is another discovery that I made while preparing the book which seems important to me. It is clear that Wollaton Park was a place…

…stage in Paris (Lloyds Weekly, 31 May). Adolescent girls in Eastern Europe are tempted with similar cock-and-bull stories to come to the rich west today and end up chained to…

…a spherical world, between Europe and Asia. Third, Jacob had heard or read an incomplete reference to Atlantis from Platonic tradition: certainly there are some parallels in terms of where…

…However, in one European country, other than Germany, it was taken up as a military symbol, namely Finland. After the Finnish Whites had successfully broken Lenin’s attempt to keep Finland…

…the fifteenth and sixteenth century proved nasty again. Beach challenges any reader to better 41% for the period 1000-1700 from any part of western Europe: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com…

Last week’s silly post on royal tennis deaths and flashbacks from Game of Thrones got Beach thinking. We all die, but if you were a European monarch what were the…

Tennis, one of the most dangerous games ever created, at least if you are a royal… Beach does not have the exact figures for how many royals ruled Europe from…

…that Ireland had remained neutral in the Second World War. In fact, in Churchill’s victory speech after Victory in Europe, Churchill had dedicated much of his talk, listened to by…

***This post is dedicated to Jill*** This blog has long had an interest in witchcraft from western Europe and particularly bizarre late examples of witchcraft including alleged human sacrifice in…

…NH on the real Benedict and Southern Man with a map. Churchill Euro-Sceptic? DA with reflections on the British meaning of Europe Dog Fight Over Parliament: Andy the Mad monks…