Queen Victoria, Baby-Killer! December 8, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beach has to satisfy himself with a very short post today, not because he doesn’t have time but because he has not the slightest idea how to deal with the material at hand. Great consternation, says the Bedford Times [unable to get the original], has prevailed amongst certain classes at Luton, from rumour that the […]
Three Wellingtons To Rule Them All and Hair Jewellery July 2, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
I came across this story while looking into the history of magic rings. It is some, shall we say, marginalia, written into the back of a volume that was subsequently scanned by Google. This is not the first time I’ve come across an intriguing reference on an online scan, but this one begged more […]
