A Fourteen-Month Pregnancy in Nineteenth-century Cornwall? October 25, 2012
Posted by Beachcombing in : Modern
Polperro Press is a small publishing house that produces excellent quality monographs on Cornish themes. If every town of this size – Polperro is an idyllic Cornish port – had a book producing company of a third of this quality historians would be able to give up their day jobs: history, at least western history, [...]
The end of the werewolf faith in Strasburg January 14, 2011
Posted by Beachcombing in : Modern
Beachcombing recently examined the death of the fairy faith in the Yorkshire town of Ilkley and sold it to his readers as a melancholy moment in that community’s history. Today he thought, instead, that he would give evidence for the beginning of the end of faith in were-wolves in the area around Strasburg (‘Germany’ or [...]
