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  • Dreaming Murder in Parliament #10: John Williams, the Dirt (and Tin) November 12, 2013

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Dreaming Murder in Parliament #10: John Williams, the Dirt (and Tin)

    Surely the most important player in the Perceval dream is the dreamer himself, John Williams. Read most modern reports about the murder and you will assume that JW was a member of the Cornish upper middle classes, a squire with clay and fox blood on his hands. In fact, John Williams was a major Victorian […]

    Dreaming Murder in Parliament #4: The Dreamer Speaks! October 14, 2013

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Dreaming Murder in Parliament #4: The Dreamer Speaks!

    Readers will remember the recent post on murder in parliament in 1812 and an alleged telepathic dream. Here is the account from the dreamer (Mr Williams, a mine director in Cornwall), written in 1832, four years after our earliest account appeared in The Times in 1828. Was it perhaps written to put the record straight? […]