Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…taxidermied examples. There is other literature from the 70s-90s, but these are the researchers I know who are currently working on the topic.’ Invisible meanwhile has been working up a…

…exist. Actually modern spelling is almost uniformly Clayhidon a tiny village in the middle of the Black Down Hills on the Devon-Somerset border. 10 August 2011: Invisible has a very…

…sterling at “prevailing rates”. ‘ Invisible also reflects that these books will likely become rare now. She is almost certainly right. Thanks JD and Invisible! 31 August, 2011: Beach’s comments,…

…stories? drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com Beachcombing senses juicy pickings. 14 July 2011: Invisible write in with the following information: Ohio is home to several gypsy tribes, as well as…

…and Invisible a site with a couple of strange commercially available collections. Thanks Ricardo and Invisible! 30 Sept 2011: A bewitching tune on a glass harp from Nev. Thanks Nev…

…Beach will propose this as a solution to Mrs B and see what comes of it. Charming story! Invisible, meanwhile, gets down to brutal specifics: ‘Now on the subject of…

…Please write by return post to: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com *** 24 Feb 2011: Invisible has a question relating to this post: When I was studying sea serpents and…

Beachcombing sometimes likes to jot down contents lists for books that he will never write: a further rather melancholy contribution to his Invisible Library collection. He has recently been playing…

…say, knock yourself out. You’ll appear in a few copyright libraries and perhaps even on an academic reading list or two. That feels good: it is the reason that this…

…few pieces of writing to make it through to us speaks of burning libraries from which British-Celtic chronicles, letters and histories doubtless passed to the greater libraries of eternity. Nor…

Beachcombing has often celebrated in this place lost books and burning libraries. Today he wants to celebrate a book that while not lost (it can be found in a modern…

In the encylopedia of burning libraries Alfred Tennyson’s lost long poem Poland is a minor entry, but it is still one that deserves to be written and perhaps even to…

Anders Rydell, The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance Nazis, libraries… what’s not to like?…

…writes with a marital solution. Luckiest Survivor of WW2: Mike Dash gives several rival candidates. Burning Libraries: Mauro C and ML add some other fires to the list. John Farkas,…

…2011: Ostrich wrote in with the book (by H.G. Wells no less!) that is surely the inspiration behind War in Dollyland. Invisible, meanwhile, carried out her own research into the…