Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…about the American choice to finish in Europe before knocking out Japan. Then Chapter Seven discusses the origins of the cold war. Usually run-around structures are not promising in a…

…moustaches, so similar from nation to nation: give a tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum feel to the whole enterprise, as if Europe was about to war over Swift’s boiled eggs rather than Serbia…

…the foregoing pages, that Mercury is the Quetzalcoatl of Mexico. He, by crossing the Atlantic into Western Europe, becomes the God of Gaul. As Erythaea, the mother, is an Island…

…in the world has not yet been welcomed by the European Hindoestanen, most of whom see themselves as Dutch rather than Indian. But with the shifting and peculiar identities of…

…copy of Das Kapital written in an unidentified Slavic language. But he has despaired at the way that ‘the industry’ in the US and the EU in Europe have pushed…

…children with death…If it is true that this disease was a divine retribution, then the extremely rapid spread across Europe may be due to non-natural causes.’ Thanks KMH and Neville!…

…and, unconscious of the interest which might have attached to it, never thought of making inquiries. There is nothing incredible about this story. In northern Europe generally, but particularly in…

…the wolves don’t come*** Wheat is the grain of the west. The crop that has followed Europeans wherever they have gone for the simple reason that post 300 AD and…

Newgrange, standing near the Boyne, is one of the great treasures of Ireland and, indeed, of Europe. Built some four thousand years ago by the first Gaels it is mysterious…

…in the esteem of all good men; to throw out so many causeless invectives against the most unblemished nobleman in Europe, and accuse him of crimes to which he and…

…books that were put on the fire. Beach has looked for a couple of decades in Florence, in Italy and in Europe more generally but he has never come across…

…Insular Europe. What about for Monday morning blues, Indonesian DNA in Madagascar? Madagascar and Indonesia are separated by some three thousand miles: even in the late nineteenth century a boat…

…child immured in the foundation to ensure its stability, so the idea of even human sacrifices can scarcely be said to be extinct in civilised Europe. Professor J. Y. Simpson,…

…the fire of life’: EM would often, after giving his lessons, stroll for hours through the most chaotic quarters of Naples, the liveliest city in Europe. And this brings us…

…even in the sturm und drung of 1914 and 1915 Europe remembered its common civilisation: and, far more importantly, in extracts, like this celebrated that civilisation as it went glugging…