The Triumph of the Dilettantes: Top Ten Fairy Books July 7, 2012
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary, Modern
Beach has spent this summer putting together a bibliography of fairy texts. And while doing so he found himself wondering ‘what are the best of these hundreds of titles?’ The question has, in fact, been building up in him and after some reflection he has jotted down here ten books that offer the most entertaining [...]
Haunted Chessmen November 25, 2011
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
***This post is dedicated to Invisible*** Invisible writes in with the news that the Lewis Chessmen are about to go on exhibition in New York. And Beach took this as a prompt for one of his favourite archaeological stories. The unnamed Lewis farmer in the following account was one Malcolm ‘Sprot’ Macleod In 1831 a [...]
