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December 2015

  1. Daily History Picture: Football Testing
  2. Index Biography #25: Prize a book
  3. Daily History Picture: 1914 Advance Through Flowers
  4. How to Get Rid of a Poltergeist
  5. Daily History Picture: Illuminated Elephant
  6. Pennsylvania Church Witch Tests a Member
  7. Pan in Warwickshire?!
  8. Daily History Picture: Cleaning Up After Waterloo
  9. Sugar Hell
  10. New History Books: Katanga!
  11. White Woman of Bell Island
  12. New History Books: Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
  13. Daily History Picture: Isolate Yourself!
  14. Christmas: Waking Up to Liberation
  15. Daily History Picture: Kennedy Trio
  16. Supernatural Truce on Christmas Eve
  17. Daily History Picture: Unicorn Raising
  18. Magician Almost Lynched in France
  19. Daily History Picture: Communists on Holiday
  20. Folklore Snake Exaggerations from the US
  21. Daily History Picture: Amerindians against Conquistadors
  22. Ilse Koch: The Skin Harvester of Buchenwald
  23. New History Books: The Spies of Lanikai
  24. ‘God, I Hate That Field’
  25. New History Books: Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires
  26. Pre Dating Naked Emma in the Pool
  27. Daily History Picture: Tea Drinking Brit Soldier
  28. Morris Dancers from Hell
  29. Daily History Picture: Squirrel Love
  30. Daily History Picture: Time Square
  31. Review: Atlas of Countries that Don’t Exist
  32. Daily History Picture: The Phallus Tree
  33. Black Rock Knocking Ghost
  34. Daily History Picture: Waiting in the Trenches
  35. History, Ignorance and American University Students
  36. New History Books: In Search of Japanese Christians
  37. The First Toothache and Tooth Worms
  38. New History Books: The Wise King
  39. Witch Blood Scratching and Keeping?
  40. Daily History Picture: Postwar Courtship
  41. Two Centuries of Historical Memory?
  42. Daily History Picture: Unicorn Dies
  43. A Canadian Fear Census
  44. Daily History Picture: Icons and Computers
  45. Daily History Picture: Old and Young
  46. Magic Ritual Disaster, 1983
  47. Daily History Picture: The Viking Method
  48. The Army That Was Defeated by a River
  49. New History Books: A Foot in the River
  50. Victorian Urban Legend: Eating Fido
  51. New History Books: Life and Death in the Andes
  52. Why Experts Should Not Necessarily Be Trusted
  53. Daily History Picture: Shipwreck Coming
  54. Seneb the Egyptian Deneg
  55. Daily History Picture: Electrocution
  56. Witchcraft and European Penis Theft
  57. Daily History Picture: High Up in the 1980s
  58. The Word Poltergeist in English

November 2015

  1. Beachcombed 66
  2. Daily History Picture: Young Putin
  3. Index Biography #24: Prize a book
  4. A Fourteen-Year Second World War?!
  5. New History Books: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
  6. Tony Judt: A Reluctant Historian?
  7. New History Books: A Handful of Hard Men
  8. Daily History Picture: R2D2 Boxed
  9. What Do Demons Look Like?
  10. Daily History Picture: War Service
  11. Ritual Murders in Nyasaland
  12. The Subscription List Swindle
  13. Daily History Picture: Pyramid of German Helmets
  14. Daily History Picture: Rat Catcher
  15. Wesley Ghost #9: Fairy, Witch or Demon?
  16. Daily History Picture: Prohibition Beauties
  17. Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft
  18. Mine Disaster Premonitions at Morfa
  19. New History Books: Islamic Paradise and Hell
  20. Dealing with Double Agents The British Way
  21. New History Books: Naked in the Woods
  22. Daily History Picture: Snowball Fight Princeton
  23. Hating Medieval Cats #4: Waldensian Cats
  24. Daily History Picture: Haile and Anne
  25. Review: A Trojan Feast
  26. Daily History Picture: Man Hits Woman (Medieval Style)
  27. The Wesley Ghost #8: Jeffrey Unmasked
  28. Daily History Picture: Polish Patriot 1920
  29. The Wesley Ghost #7: Psychology of the Haunting
  30. Daily History Picture: Escape in Berlin
  31. Improving the Twentieth Century
  32. The Wesley Ghost #6: Feeling the Ghost
  33. New History Books: Hitler at Home
  34. The Wesley Ghost #5: Seeing the Ghost
  35. New History Books: Medieval Islamic Hospital
  36. Daily History Picture: Neo Nazis in Sweden
  37. Clearing Minefields with Human Beings
  38. Daily History Picture: Nine Soldiers
  39. Review: The Truth about Donald McCormick?
  40. Daily History Picture: What do a Million Dead Look Like
  41. Hating Medieval Cats #3: Dominic’s Cat
  42. Daily History Picture: Iranian Child Soldiers
  43. Urban Legend: The Hunger Trick
  44. Daily History Picture: Hayek’s Dedication
  45. The Wesley Ghost #4: Hearing the Ghost
  46. The Wesley Ghost #3: Time
  47. New History Books: Broken Idols
  48. The Wesley Ghost #2: Dramatis Personae
  49. New History Books: Distance from Belsen Heap
  50. Daily History Picture: Adenauer Thanked
  51. The Wesley Ghost #1: Introduction
  52. Daily History Picture: Pearl Harbor
  53. Hating Medieval Cats #2: The Rod Cat
  54. Daily History Picture: Eisenhower and His Men
  55. The Longest Modern War: The Greco-Albanian War 1940-1987
  56. Daily History Picture: Nazi Revels
  57. Blood and Judges: Murder Will Out
  58. Daily History Picture: NYC 1930s
  59. Hating Medieval Cats #1: The Rope Cat

October 2015

  1. Beachcombed 65
  2. New History Books: A Garden of Marvels
  3. Index Biography #23: Prize a book
  4. Daily History Picture: Waterloo Cloak
  5. Ophelia, Shards and Suicides
  6. Daily History Picture: Finnish Shelter
  7. Fairy Human Relations: Dangerous Reflections
  8. Daily History Picture: Lee Secedes
  9. The Earthquake Ghost
  10. Daily History Picture: Future Jackson
  11. Murder, McCormick, Murray and the Witches
  12. Daily History Picture: Nazis and The Nation of Islam
  13. Late Witch Ducking in Bedfordshire
  14. New History Books: Finland At War
  15. Historians Predict the Past: An Academic Urban Legend?
  16. New History Books: Weeping Britannia
  17. The Smith’s Ghosts
  18. Daily History Picture: McCarthy Attacks
  19. Mussolini and Cole Porter
  20. Daily History Picture: Italy Bombs London
  21. In Search of Chinese Tooth Worms
  22. Daily History Picture: Ancient Egyptian Internet
  23. London Polt
  24. Daily History Picture: Suffragette Liberty or Death
  25. Counter Factual: Pre-War Politicians and Television
  26. Daily History Picture: Last Supper Selfie
  27. Flying Girlfriend, Frightened Boyfriend and the Witch Orgy
  28. New History Books: Beware the Rugged Bear
  29. Real Tree Trunk Deaths
  30. New History Books: Byzantium Triumphant
  31. Scooby Doo Crime 4#: The Skeleton Robber
  32. Daily History Picture: Kitchen Debate
  33. Execution by Swimming Pool: A Saudi Legend?
  34. Daily History Picture: Shot on Campus
  35. Stolen Horses and the Cunning Man
  36. Daily History Picture: Kennedy at NASA
  37. Why Do We Forget Soviet Murder?
  38. Daily History Picture: Japanese Victory
  39. Georgian Magic School
  40. Daily History Picture: One Eyed General
  41. Mythologised Suicides? Levi and Turing
  42. New History Books: The Secret War
  43. The Snake Tree
  44. New History Books: Steppe, Desert and Ocean
  45. Wolstanton, Ghost Assault and Real Battery
  46. Daily History Picture: Hungarian Secret Police
  47. Crazy Couplings: Koestler and de Beauvoir
  48. Daily History Picture: Holocaust Rings
  49. Bosom Serpent Curses
  50. Daily History Picture: HIV/Aids Poster
  51. What Makes a Good Historian?
  52. Daily History Picture: Finnish Ski Troops
  53. Ghost Pills!
  54. Daily History Picture: First Light
  55. Review: The New Civilisation?
  56. New History Books: Fighting Nazi Occupation
  57. Victorian Urban Legends: Bodies in Trees
  58. The Longest Ancient Snakes
  59. Daily History Picture: Finnish Catapult
  60. Gentlemanly Soldiers

September 2015

  1. Beachcombed 64
  2. Daily History Picture: The Flight of Witches
  3. Index Biography #22: Prize a book
  4. Daily History Picture: Swiss Guard Hold Firm
  5. Foreign Swindles in the Nineteenth Century
  6. Daily History Picture: Winter War
  7. Fried Mice and Urine Mouth Rinses: Traditional Toothache Cures
  8. Daily History Picture: Prisoners!
  9. French and Parisian Swindles in the Nineteenth Century
  10. New History Books: Magic in Western Culture
  11. Fat Virgin Mary in the Lost Provinces
  12. Daily History Picture: Execution at the Tower
  13. British Provincial Swindles in the Nineteenth Century
  14. Daily History Picture: Empire States
  15. Human Pixy-Leading in Suffolk
  16. Daily History Picture: Bin Laden Dead
  17. US Swindles in the Nineteenth Century
  18. Daily History Picture: Witch?
  19. The Judge, His Wife and the Witch’s Orgy
  20. Daily History Picture: Budapest Resists
  21. London Swindles in the Nineteenth Century
  22. Daily History Picture: Enemy Buried
  23. Dead Babies and Creature and Vitalis
  24. New History Books: Your Noblest Shippe
  25. The Science of Bells and Thunderstorms
  26. Daily History Picture: Bombed Out Cathedral
  27. Victorian Urban Legend: the Clever Pickpocket
  28. Daily History Picture: Klan and Black Police
  29. Scooby Doo Crime 3#: the Good Ladies Rob a Peasant
  30. Daily History Picture: Date Snafu
  31. Flying with the Devil or with the Mind?
  32. Daily History Picture: Scramble!
  33. Margaret Murray in Her Own Words
  34. Daily History Picture: Greek Troops Go Forward
  35. Snake Friend/Enemy in Egypt
  36. Daily History Picture: The Great Basil D’Oliveira
  37. The Mermaid Con
  38. New History Books: Operation Ajax
  39. Immortal Meals #26: The Professors and the Cave Bone Broth
  40. Rape and Animals
  41. Daily History Picture: Bataan Death March
  42. Ten Best Second World Statistics
  43. Daily History Picture: Stalin Pun
  44. Unlucky Minister and Fishing Boats
  45. Daily History Picture: Elephant Jump
  46. Fantasy Britain by OS Maps
  47. Daily History Picture: Crete Defeat
  48. Broomstick Accidents
  49. Daily History Picture: Anti-Lynching
  50. The Churchill Coventry Myth
  51. Daily History Picture: Marlene’s Most Amazing Kiss
  52. Last Magic Spell Cast in Battle?
  53. New History Books: Black Holocaust
  54. Footfalls Echo in the Memory: Taunton
  55. Daily History Picture: Hurricane Pilot
  56. Immortal Meals #25: Champagne, Nests and the Courthouse
  57. Daily History Picture: US Anger
  58. The Chester Cat Hoax of 1815
  59. Daily History Picture: Winston and Kaiser
  60. Waldensian Courage, Waldensian Blood
  61. Beachcombed 63

August 2015

  1. The Index Biography #21, Prize a Good Book
  2. In Search of the Most Beautiful Pictures Ever Seen
  3. Butter Tricks and Witches
  4. Sentries and Ghosts
  5. Review: Victorian Studies in Scarlet
  6. The Longest Surviving Medieval Heresy
  7. Living in Interesting Times: Britain’s Next Five Years
  8. Early Bionic Ear
  9. The Imitation Game
  10. Origins of the Trickster
  11. Gort’s Longest Hour
  12. Flying Fairies, Stolen Wine and the Hat Tree
  13. Wild Men from Elsewhere
  14. Why Do Welsh Ghosts Jump?
  15. American Wild Men
  16. Victorian Urban Legends: The Wrong Bed
  17. The Mystics and Joe Bloggs
  18. Witch Violence in Nineteenth-Century Cumbria
  19. Witching Spiders from Suffolk
  20. Immortal Meals #24: Jaén’s Eggfight
  21. Victorian Urban Legend: The Coffin Trick
  22. Nine Moments When the Axis Lost the War
  23. British and Irish Wild Men
  24. Foundling Names
  25. Victorian Urban Legend: the Pickpocket’s Diamond Ring
  26. Return to Trenches at Death
  27. When Spain Was Nigeria: the Origin of the Email Scam
  28. Wedding Ring Superstitions
  29. In Search of Misha’al
  30. Baby Loving Snakes
  31. Beachcombed 62

July 2015

  1. The Index Biography #20, Prize a Good Book
  2. Daily History Picture: Prayer in Victory
  3. The Earliest Telephone Call from the Dead
  4. Daily History Picture: POW Comes Home
  5. Life in the Shadow of the Mob: Jewish Norwich
  6. Daily History Picture: Portable TV
  7. In Search of Nineteenth-Century Urban Legends
  8. Daily History Picture: Photo Shoot
  9. William Allen White’s Brush With the Elm Fairies
  10. Daily History Picture: Medieval Study
  11. Daily History Picture: Paris Prisoners
  12. Don’t Blame Germany
  13. The King of the Non-Existent Mary Ann Islands
  14. The Tower Monster #10: Cobblers
  15. Daily History Picture: Pacific War
  16. Daily History Picture: Crossing London Bridge
  17. The Tower Monster #9: The Sexual Predator Ghost
  18. Daily History Picture: Opium!
  19. The Tower Monster #8: A York Parallel
  20. Daily History Picture: Olmec Battle Mural
  21. The Tower Monster #7: A French Parallel
  22. Daily History Picture: Obscene Telly Tubby
  23. The Tower Monster #6: Shoe Polish Devil at the Tower
  24. Daily History Picture: Demon Backpack
  25. The Tower Monster #5: Another Sentry
  26. The Tower Monster #4: A Short Story
  27. Daily History Picture: Nuns Having Fun
  28. The Tower Monster #3: A Magnetism Account
  29. Daily History Picture: Bear Baiting
  30. The Tower Monster #2: A Contemporary Account
  31. Daily History Picture: Crossing a London Bridge
  32. The Tower Monster #1: The Witness Account
  33. Victorian Urban Legends: Snuff Poisoning?
  34. Daily History Picture: Nixon and Robo-Cop
  35. Daily History Picture: Tsar’s Last Photograph
  36. Ghost Cars
  37. Daily History Picture: Plane Collision
  38. Review: Urban Legends
  39. Seventeen Bodies in a Well: A Norwich Mystery
  40. Daily History Picture: Medieval Autopsy
  41. Roman Octopus: Sewer Gator or Godzilla?
  42. Where Are the Gods of the Modern World?
  43. Daily History Picture: Eastern Fireworks
  44. Why Couldn’t WW2 Italians Fight?
  45. Daily History Picture: Mourning for Lincoln
  46. Whipping Boy: Origins of a Royal Institution
  47. Daily History Picture: Riefenstahl’s Massacre Horror
  48. Yahoos in North America
  49. Daily History Picture: The Devil Tempts Christ
  50. And So Goodbye Ray Girvan, I knew you but never met you…
  51. Daily History Picture: London Victorian Slum
  52. The Monster of Piper’s Hole: Scilly
  53. Landing on the Wrong Carrier
  54. Daily History Picture: Unpacking Liberty
  55. Review: Death of a Princess
  56. Beachcombed 61

June 2015

  1. Daily History Picture: Mislanding
  2. The Index Biography #19, Prize a Good Book
  3. Hanging Jokes
  4. Daily History Picture: When the Bombs Drop
  5. Jumping Wild Men
  6. Daily History Picture: Lexington Planes
  7. Cornish Bear Monster?
  8. Image: Glowworm Prepares to Ram
  9. Daily History Picture: Paris Celebration 1919
  10. Historically-Minded Immortals
  11. Daily History Picture: Village Cassino
  12. Horse God in Early Modern Cornwall!
  13. Daily History Picture: Execution and Decaptitation
  14. The Sasquatch: Bigger is Better
  15. Daily History Picture: Tsar Nicholas Has Fun
  16. Counter Factual: Mussolini Doesn’t Roll the Dice
  17. Daily History Picture: Vietnam Orphans
  18. Udder Snakes
  19. Daily History Picture: Listen to the Animal Bishop
  20. Emperor Stars in Anti-Colonial Play
  21. Daily History Picture: Water Jousting
  22. You Have Only Your Chains to Lose (Unless You Are African)
  23. Daily History Picture: Weighing the soul
  24. Irish Sheep Boy
  25. Daily History Picture: Headless Duel
  26. Enemy Gives Medal for Ship Sinking
  27. The Longest Snake in the World
  28. Daily History Picture: Whisky About to Be Destroyed
  29. Bastard Names
  30. Daily History Picture: Winged Fairies
  31. Seduction by Hashish
  32. Daily History Picture: Witch Ducking
  33. Could Germany Have Successfully Invaded Britain, 1940?
  34. Daily History Picture: Wolf Eating Corpse
  35. Killed by a Watermelon? Royal Iranian Caprices…
  36. In Search of the Hodag
  37. Daily History Picture: Pearl Harbor Fire Fighters
  38. Daily History Picture: Christmas 1914
  39. Immortal Meals #23: Family Meals, Medan Style
  40. Daily History Picture: Bomber Production
  41. The Flint Hill Wildman: The Hunt
  42. The Flint Hill Wildman: The Victims
  43. Daily History Picture: Hawking
  44. Mannerheim and the Medium
  45. Pheidippides Remembered in Art
  46. Where Animal Cruelty and Folk Medicine Meet
  47. The Shining South African Snake Monster
  48. It Takes After You: Pig Love in New Haven
  49. Chastity Tools in Puritan New England
  50. Beachcombed 60

May 2015

  1. The Index Biography #18
  2. Daily History Picture: Texan Massacre
  3. D’Annunzio and PR
  4. Daily History Picture: Angry Mosaic
  5. The Poisoned Bowl and the 5000 Letters
  6. Daily History Picture: Miss Lovely Eyes
  7. History Journals and Their Limits
  8. Daily History Picture: Into Hell
  9. The Stone of Oo: High Weirdness from Southern France
  10. Daily History Picture: Mickey Mouse Club
  11. Execution by Dogs?
  12. Daily History Picture: WW1 Crater
  13. Contacting Mars in the Late Nineteenth Century
  14. Death by Bell Ringing
  15. Daily History Picture: Family Murdered
  16. A Poxy Invasion of Europe: 1340s
  17. Daily History Picture: French Special Forces
  18. Credulity and Animal Lore in Italy
  19. Daily History Picture: Medieval Mind
  20. Two Monmouth Moments
  21. The Greene County Wild Man
  22. Daily History Picture: McCartney and Jagger
  23. The Durham Serpent
  24. Daily History Picture: Murder in the Caribbean
  25. The Mysterious Erich von Richthofen
  26. Daily History Picture: Married Couple and Baby
  27. Daily History Picture: Young Marilyn Monroe
  28. Roman Gutter Burials and a Non-Existent Line of Pliny
  29. Daily History Picture: Hellish Castles
  30. Downey’s Death: Killed by Imagination
  31. Daily History Picture: Many Handed One
  32. The Vein of Love and the Ring Finger
  33. Daily History Picture: Blitzed Roof
  34. Review: Truffles
  35. A City Without Buildings: Themistocles Before Salamis
  36. Daily History Picture: Golden Gate Bridge Opens
  37. Late Storm Bellringing
  38. Daily History Picture: Wilbur Flies Around Liberty
  39. Anglo-Saxon Church Eaves and Baby Burials
  40. Daily History Picture: Germany Quits
  41. The Rudest Diplomatic Letter Ever Written?
  42. Wild Man Circus Fakery
  43. Daily History Picture: Randy Nineteenth Century
  44. Hortatory Names
  45. Bizarre Seventeenth-Century Jury List
  46. Daily History Picture: American Gothic Originals
  47. The Nile’s Flooding and the Limits of Logic
  48. Daily History Picture: Titanic Iceberg?
  49. Execution by Cannon
  50. Daily History Picture: Bomb Berlin!
  51. The Manufacture of Chinese Wildmen
  52. Hono Heke, A Maori Chief from Ireland?!
  53. Self Serving Capital Punishment
  54. Beachcombed 59

April 2015

  1. Daily History Picture: Mannerheim at Odessa
  2. Searching for Mrs S***k*n*us
  3. Daily History Picture: Luxembourg Liberated
  4. Man vs Horse: Pheidippides and his Missing Mount
  5. Daily History Picture: Medieval Golf
  6. The Hanging Bed
  7. Ash Magic
  8. Daily History Picture: Rolling Ball
  9. Daily History Picture: Fish or Beast?
  10. Illinois Lion Man
  11. Balloon Bridge Across the English Channel, c. 1850
  12. Daily History Picture: Pinkerton, Lincoln and McClellan
  13. Manx Judge and Manx Fairies, 1932
  14. 403 Cossack Adolescents: Soviet Genocide?
  15. Daily History Picture: Liberation!
  16. Daily History Picture: Medieval Donuts?
  17. Guest Post: Walking the Pennine Way in 1965
  18. Daily History Picture: Marco Pole En Route
  19. Gay Ponte Vecchio and the Office of the Night
  20. Daily History Picture: Painting Virgins
  21. Life on Mars, c. 1900: Rainmakers and Unicorns
  22. Daily History Picture: Yet More Monkeys
  23. 50 Shades of Grey Without the Sex Scenes
  24. The Campestres, Romano-British Fairies?
  25. Canary Slaves in the Arab World
  26. Daily History Picture: Take Another Piece of My Heart
  27. Daily History Picture: Exorcism!
  28. Two Prison Faces
  29. Daily History Picture: Last Rites in Vietnam
  30. Immortal Meals #22: Mesmerism Tea Party
  31. Poison Jokes
  32. Daily History Picture: Irish History
  33. Daily History Picture: Gas Chambers
  34. Pheidippides: The Greek Who Met A God
  35. Daily History Picture: Sad Burial
  36. Dangers of Treasure Hunting in Sixteenth-Century Devon
  37. Espionage Commandments
  38. Daily History Picture: Einstein and the Indians
  39. Book Eating in the Bible
  40. Daily History Picture: Goodbye Zanjeer
  41. Lenin Meets the Bandits
  42. Daily History Picture: Brit-French Cheers
  43. Bible Sandwich
  44. Daily History Picture: GIs and Dutch Children
  45. Poxless 1492
  46. Daily History Picture: A Cuppa for Frankenstein
  47. Piper at the Gates of Dawn: Pan, Kenneth Grahame and Wind in the Willows
  48. True Bosom Serpents
  49. Daily History Picture: Santa in the Blitz
  50. Pheidippides and the Myth of the Marathon
  51. Natator #4: Diving off London Bridge
  52. The Failure of Appeasement
  53. Beachcombed 58

March 2015

  1. Daily History Picture: Castro and Khrushchev
  2. The Index Biography #17: Prize = A Good Book
  3. Daily History Picture: Anti-German Poster
  4. Natator #3: the Fight with Fish Man
  5. Daily History Picture: Medieval Demons
  6. Natator 2#: Buckland Speaks
  7. Natator 1#: Arrival of the Master!
  8. Teetotallers Unlucky at Sea
  9. Daily History Picture: Christ Recrucified
  10. The 5 Greatest Historical Graphic Novels
  11. Daily History Picture: Skinny Dipping Problems
  12. The Eyes Have It: Lenin’s Screwing Orbs
  13. Daily History Picture: Ancient Jerusalem
  14. Not the Shawl, Josephine!
  15. Daily History Picture: Regretting the Holocaust
  16. Dreadful Homecoming, Italy 1944
  17. Daily History Picture: Catapult Fun
  18. The Mystery of the Victoria Reservoir at Southport
  19. Death by Joke
  20. Daily History Picture: Medical Procedure or Make Up?
  21. Smelling Germans
  22. Daily History Picture: The End of Selassie
  23. The Lie of the Lie of Christian’s Yellow Star
  24. Daily History Picture: The Harvest Mouse Pack?
  25. Disturbingly Nude Victorian Mermaids
  26. Daily History Picture: Home to Frankfurt
  27. The Oldest Phrase in the World
  28. Daily History Picture: Flame Thrower Light
  29. Macarius and the World Soul
  30. Daily History Picture: Goodbye Adolf
  31. Preserving Foolish Enemies
  32. Chamber Pot Enemies
  33. Child Stealing and Bridge Building in Bosnia
  34. Daily History Picture: Sea Monster
  35. He Was My Emperor!
  36. Daily History Picture: Dido’s Demise
  37. Books and the Ghost
  38. Daily History Picture: Cleaning Up Radiation
  39. Selling Children in the 1800s
  40. Daily History Picture: Medieval Dentist
  41. Jacob of Edessa’s America
  42. Beachcombing and the Telepathic Rat
  43. Unlucky Jobs: Japanese Prime Ministers, 1900-1950
  44. Review: The Victorian Book of the Dead
  45. Daily History Picture: Bosnian Homecoming
  46. Churchill’s Daemon
  47. Daily History Picture: Knight vs Knight, Horse vs Horse
  48. Tears and Bows: WW1 Ambassadors and Declarations of War
  49. Daily History Picture: Coney Island Drowning
  50. Immortal Meals #21: The Fish That Killed An Emperor
  51. Daily History Picture: Dance Till You Drop
  52. The Horror of History Seen from the Bubble

February 2015

  1. Beachcombed 57
  2. The Index Biography #16: Prize = A Good Book
  3. Daily History Picture: Cittern Player
  4. Hair Harvests and Hair Theft
  5. Daily History Picture: Obscene Middle Ages
  6. In Search of Medieval Pain
  7. Daily History Picture: Italy Fights for the Alps
  8. How Gerbils Killed Millions
  9. Daily History Picture: 1956 Budapest
  10. Good Swastikas? The Hakaristi
  11. Daily History Picture: Laughing Gas
  12. Historical Ménage a Trois
  13. Daily History Picture: Horned Woman
  14. Flesh-Eating Icelandic Elves
  15. The Violent Deaths of Scottish Kings
  16. Daily History Picture: Hitchcock and the Lion
  17. Murder and Poetic Inspiration: Killing Fanny Kaplan, 1918
  18. Daily History Picture: Medieval Surgery?
  19. Crossing the Rhine and Surrendering: 1793
  20. Daily History Picture: Best Goebbel Picture
  21. Count Teleki: The Politics of Suicide
  22. Daily History Picture: German Servicemen See Auschwitz
  23. The Doppleganger and Ghosts of Lower Gornal
  24. Daily History Picture: Steamy Fox Hunt
  25. Scoundrels and Pisspants: WW2 Ambassadors and Declarations of War
  26. Daily History Picture: More Snail Wars!
  27. European Kings: the Most Dangerous Job in the World?
  28. You Can’t Go Home Again: Aunt Janey and Other Stories
  29. Daily History Picture: Experimental Weapon in Detroit
  30. Two Hebridean Losers Harrow Hell c. 1600
  31. Daily History Picture: Bombed Out Dresden
  32. Immortal Meals #20: The Breakfast That Killed Seven Hundred
  33. Daily History Picture: Dividing Germany
  34. Totalitarian Jiang and The Sound of Music
  35. Daily History Picture: Bear Bite Magic
  36. A Roman Coin in the Congo!
  37. Daily History Picture: An American Welcome
  38. The Peshev Insurgency
  39. The Game of Dead (French) Kings
  40. Daily History Picture: Hung Drawn and Quartered
  41. Goodbye Constantinople
  42. The Hairy Boggart of Weeton
  43. Daily History Picture: Goodbye at the Wall
  44. Daily History Picture: Medieval Monkeys Again
  45. Long Long Long Durée Oral Transmission
  46. Daily History Picture: IRA Stop and Search
  47. Killing the Witch’s Rooster?
  48. The Rhino’s Horn and Memory

January 2015

  1. Beachcombed 56
  2. The Index Biography #15: Prize = A Good Book
  3. Daily History Picture: Snail City
  4. Ghost at Lynton
  5. Naked Christianity
  6. Daily History Picture: Bang Goes the Hindenburg
  7. Daily History Picture: Helen and Charlie
  8. The Lost Tragedy of Anne Boleyn
  9. Daily History Picture: Running for Freedom
  10. The Eighteen Year Old Problem: Murder in WW2 France
  11. Daily History Picture: French Resistance Amazon
  12. Green Children of Woolpit 5: Parallels
  13. Daily History Picture: Eating Fish
  14. Green Children of Woolpit 4: Why Bean Stalks?
  15. Green Children of Woolpit 3: Why Green Skin?
  16. Daily History Picture: Execution
  17. Green Children of Woolpit 2: The Mysterious Source X
  18. Daily History Picture: German City Bombed Out
  19. The Green Children of Woolpit 1: All Hail John Clark!
  20. Daily History Picture: French Gunners
  21. Witchcraft and the Walking Toad!
  22. Daily History Picture: Medieval Post
  23. The Mystery of Ghost Riots
  24. Daily History Picture: Giant Bird and Woman
  25. Writers I Loathe
  26. The Horror of Electric Lights
  27. Daily History Picture: Snail Fighting
  28. Churchill in Antwerp Mystery: Hunt the Photograph
  29. Daily History Picture: Defeat
  30. Forgot the Damn Suicide Pills!
  31. Daily History Picture: The Archduke’s Last Hour
  32. Struell Wells, Ireland: Pagan Customs in the Modern Age?
  33. Daily History Picture: Party Time in the Middle Ages
  34. Forgotten Kingdoms: The Republic of Montefiorino
  35. Daily History Picture: Children Stealing!
  36. The Prisoner in the Temple: the Bloodiest Lie
  37. Daily History Picture: Stunt Flying in Paris
  38. Review: The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick
  39. Tamils in Sumatra: An Inscription
  40. Daily History Picture: Meeting at War
  41. Seven German Mistakes that Lost the Great War
  42. Daily History Picture: Saying Bye to Dad
  43. Ghost Riot in 1880
  44. Daily History Picture: Atomic Cake
  45. Naked Fertility Rituals from Missouri
  46. Daily History Picture: Tommies to War!
  47. Burning Library: Apion’s Writings
  48. Ghost Cart/Coach of St Andrews
  49. Epiphany Gift 5: Latham’s Elizabethan Fairies
  50. Daily History Picture: Train Ride with Bang
  51. Daily History Picture: Audrey Shopping with Friend
  52. The Mystery of the Fairy Battery
  53. Daily History Picture: Early Beatles Picture
  54. IELTS for Mothertongues: So you thought you knew English!
  55. Chime Hours and Chime Children
  56. Daily History Picture: Desperation Beach
  57. Immortal Meals #19: Rum Up at Harewood House

2014 463

December 2014

  1. Beachcombed 55
  2. Index Biography #14: prize = book
  3. The Ghosts of Children Past
  4. Benedict’s Pool (Worcestershire/Gloucestershire)
  5. Fighting Sea Monsters with Vinegar in Medieval Iran
  6. Churchill: Euro-Sceptic or Pro European?
  7. Saved by Birds and a Gypsy
  8. At the Lychgate: Happy Christmas!
  9. Daily History Picture: Tsar Nicholas After Abdication Before Death
  10. Gypsies as Children Stealers in Italy: A Modern Myth
  11. Daily History Picture: Wright Brothers Fun
  12. A Dublin Haunted House Case
  13. Daily History Picture: Execution 1945
  14. The Loneliness of Nineteenth-Century Infanticide
  15. Daily History Picture: Deportation from Greece
  16. Why Children-Stealing Gypsies?
  17. A Monkey in the Late Roman Army
  18. Daily History Picture: Heavenly Delights
  19. Witch Oven Near Florence
  20. Daily History Picture: Best Ankles Competition
  21. For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow and WW2
  22. Daily History Picture: Amelia’s Last Hair Cut
  23. Immortal Meals #18: Breakfast in the Forbidden Palace
  24. Daily History Picture: Left Right Change
  25. Roman Coins in Iceland
  26. Daily History Picture: Dog Fight Over Parliament
  27. Buying Flying Rocs and Sailing Ships
  28. Binoculars, Wanted Posters and Green Dresses: Irish-British Relations Post Independence
  29. Daily History Picture: Medieval Aristotle Reads in his Study
  30. Earth Light in Norfolk
  31. Daily History Picture: Hat Madness
  32. A Dead American and A Riot in County Cork
  33. The Rights and Wrongs of Killing Mussolini
  34. Daily History Picture: Knocker Up
  35. Daily History Picture: Carter Meets Tut
  36. Roman Bowl in Ancient Japan?!
  37. Daily History Picture: Kennedy Meets Clinton
  38. The Man Who Lost Germany the Great War?
  39. Daily History Picture: Working in Medieval Fields
  40. Devil on the Trans-Siberian Railway
  41. Daily History Picture: Parliament in Flames
  42. Faking History on the Internet #2: Fairies Dug Up in Ireland!
  43. Was Leonardo’s Mother a Slave (Chinese or Otherwise)?
  44. Daily History Picture: Boiler Blow Up
  45. An Early Icelandic Fairy
  46. Daily History Picture: Heads Turn for Kim Nowak
  47. Persians and Romans at the Ends of the Earth
  48. Daily History Picture: The Last British Battleship Scrapped
  49. Interview: The Quack Doctor
  50. The King and Country Debate: Oxford 1933
  51. Daily History Picture: German POWs after Verdun
  52. Daily History Picture: Medieval Rabbit Kills!

November 2014

  1. Beachcombed 54
  2. Index Biography #13: prize = book
  3. Daily History Picture: Churchill Swims
  4. Why Didn’t Others Try Before Columbus?
  5. Daily History Picture: Dragon Sleeps with Queen
  6. Great War Organ Gun
  7. When Churchill Came Within Twenty Yards of Hitler
  8. Daily History Picture: Friendly Demons
  9. Daily History Picture: Dorothy Counts at School
  10. Goatman: Flesh or Folklore
  11. Daily History Picture: Deportation From Greece
  12. The Oldest Record of an Escaped Slave?
  13. Daily History Picture: Dog Fight
  14. Three Forgotten Democratic Tools from History
  15. Daily History Picture: Chasing Gnome?
  16. In Praise of North Korean Pop Music
  17. The Misericordia Polyptych Meets Allied Bombs
  18. Daily History Picture: Hungarian Execution
  19. Sunk Three Times in an Hour
  20. Daily History Picture: Bad Cats
  21. Ethiopian Boat Arrives in the Mediterranean?!
  22. Daily History Picture: Ali Love Pele
  23. Joan of Arc and the Genesis of Her Voices
  24. The Children Tree
  25. Daily History Picture: ‘Oakies’ Out West
  26. Source of Life: Mrs B Gives Birth
  27. Daily History Picture: Playing Medieval Chess
  28. Daily History Picture: Elizabeth in the Puddle
  29. Written Gibberish and Magic
  30. Italy’s World War Disaster
  31. Daily History Picture: Thirteenth-Century Hunt
  32. New Folklore Survey: Have You a Fairy Story to Tell?
  33. Daily History Picture: Canadian Tanks
  34. Roman Adventures in Ethiopia
  35. The Pleasure of He Who Longs to Cross the Horizons
  36. Daily History Picture: Concentration Camp Revenge
  37. Daily History Picture: Che Not Shooting Someone
  38. Falling in Love with a Seventeen-Year-Old Revolutionary
  39. Daily History Picture: The Road of Death 1991
  40. The Biography of a Difficult to Bury Witch
  41. Daily History Picture: Wind in the Park
  42. The Joys of Historical Ignorance
  43. The Earliest African Unicorn Evidence
  44. Daily History Picture: Praying for GIs in France
  45. Greeks in Ancient India? The Heliodorus Pillar
  46. Daily History Picture: Pezolt’s Imaginary Minneapolis
  47. The Dominions and WW2
  48. Daily History Picture: Fighting the Sea People
  49. Roma Fairies at Blackpool
  50. Daily History Picture: Chiang Wei-kuo as Nazi
  51. The Ripper and Thieves’ Candles
  52. Daily History Picture: Sleeping Tommies
  53. Mussolini’s Secret Weapon: Castor Oil
  54. Daily History Picture: Dragon, Butterfly and Bird
  55. Do You Recognise Iskandar?
  56. Beachcombed 53

October 2014

  1. Index Biography #12
  2. Daily History Picture: Last Hitler Picture
  3. Daily History Picture: French Medal Giving
  4. Who Was the First Victim of a Machine Gun?
  5. Daily History Picture: Surviving the Blitz
  6. The Poison Duel 11#: Poison Duels in Plays and Conclusion
  7. Daily History Picture: Sermon on the Mount
  8. Churchill Urinating in Germany
  9. Daily History Picture: Samurai Bow Training
  10. Speaking to Tens of Thousands Before Battle: Is it Possible?
  11. Daily History Picture: Superb Mosaic
  12. The German Non-Saluter Myth
  13. Bombing Roulette
  14. Daily History Picture: British Nurse
  15. Sham Virigins, Trainee Shamans, Phantom Storms and Medieval Conversion
  16. Daily History Picture: Twain and Tesla
  17. Telephony and Music: the Perils of Modernity
  18. Daily History Picture: Manchester Postmen
  19. M. R. James’ Invisible Library
  20. Bathing Mystery at Lahinch
  21. Daily History Picture: Say it with Flowers at the Pentagon
  22. Daily History Picture: Disney Meal
  23. The Poison Duel 10#: Playing Cards and Poison at Tombstone
  24. Daily History Picture: The Misery of War
  25. The Truth about Mussolini’s Death?
  26. Review: Fire in the Brain
  27. Daily History Picture: Founding Father Pinup
  28. The Poison Duel 9#: Poison Duel at the Theatre
  29. Daily History Picture: Aztec Warriors
  30. Anne Boleyn Loses It
  31. Daily History Picture: Cat Plays Lute
  32. Multi-Dimensional Civil War in Fourteenth-Century Florence
  33. Daily History Picture: Being Sick in the Middle Ages
  34. The Greater Irish Rattlesnake?
  35. Daily History Picture: Lights Up At Nuremburg
  36. Did Joan of Arc see Fairies?
  37. Daily History Picture: Evacuating Saigon
  38. The Poison Duel 8#: Animal Poison Duels
  39. Very Late Witch Case from Norfolk, 1941
  40. Daily History Picture: Bison Skulls
  41. Immortal Meals #17: Eating with Attila
  42. Daily History Picture: Assault in Mississipi
  43. The Poison Duel 7#: Molever vs Mullins
  44. Daily History Picture: The Owl and the Magpie
  45. Killing Fidel
  46. Daily History Picture: The Death of Mansur al-Hallaj
  47. Drilling Out Demons in Nineteenth-Century France
  48. Daily History Picture: Georgian Flirtation
  49. FoI and Noah’s Ark
  50. Daily History Picture: Cocaine Toothache Drops
  51. The Poison Duel 6#: The Poisoned Draught
  52. Could Japan Have Fought On?
  53. Daily History Picture: Christopher Robin with Poo
  54. Faking History on the Internet: Romans Invade Ireland
  55. Daily History Picture: Martyrs of Nagasaki
  56. The First Automatic Door Bell in History?
  57. Beachcombed 52
  58. Daily History Picture: Black Power!

September 2014

  1. Daily History Picture: Massacre on the Day of Bartholomew
  2. Index Biography #11
  3. Daily History Picture: Fat and Slim
  4. The First Funeral Wreath, c. 60,000 B.C.?
  5. Did a Minnesota Bear Almost Cause World War III?
  6. Daily History Picture: Blitzed Books
  7. The Poison Duel 5#: Poison Dominoes in Poland
  8. Daily History Picture: Medieval Circumcision
  9. Human Knowledge of Change
  10. Daily History Picture: Wedding Bells and Goebbels
  11. An Invisible Library Among the Fairies
  12. Daily History Picture: Nine Kings in One Room
  13. Immortal Meals #16: Stalin Meets China
  14. Daily History Picture: Pampered in the Middle Ages
  15. The Poison Duel 4#: The Medical Origins of the Poison Duel?
  16. Daily History Picture: Come On, Shoot Me!
  17. Modern Magic in Afghanistan: Omar and the Prophet’s Cloak
  18. Last of the British?
  19. Daily History Picture: Charlie Chaplin Meets Ghandi
  20. D’Annunzio as Father: the Ballroom Babies
  21. Daily History Picture: First British Mermaid?
  22. The Poison Duel 3#: Poison at Dawn in Virginia
  23. Daily History Picture: Tricking Medieval Tiger
  24. Osama Bin Laden in the White House?!
  25. Daily History Picture: Ali is Angry
  26. The Poison Duel 2#: Crossing Poison Pills in Louisiana
  27. Daily History Picture: Parisian Kids in Shock
  28. Late Witch Attack, 1924
  29. Daily History Picture: German Infantry at Ardennes
  30. Love Goddess #11: Astarte’s Pierced Nipples
  31. The Poison Duel 1#: Introduction
  32. Daily History Picture: Kiddy Cage
  33. Review: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union
  34. Earliest Written Reference to Britannia?
  35. Daily History Picture: Prisoners at Buchenwald
  36. Daily History Picture: Bike Death!
  37. Speaking Fireball in Luton (Devon)
  38. Daily History Picture: Baking in the Middle Ages
  39. False Impressions on the Day of Infamy
  40. Daily History Picture: The Cleverest Monkey in the World
  41. More On Cauls and Sacs
  42. Daily History Picture: French Foreign Legion WW2
  43. Swallowed by a Whale?
  44. Fake Ghost Battle from Cornwall?
  45. Daily History Picture: Digging Up Ur
  46. Nietzsche, the Prostitutes and the Piano
  47. Daily History Picture: OAP with Automatic Weapons
  48. A Westerner in Early Medieval China?
  49. Daily History Picture: The Art of Dying Well
  50. Mysterious Boggart Body Found in Manchester
  51. Daily History Picture: The Last Cornish Speaker
  52. Killer Sheep
  53. Daily History Picture: Surrender at Dunkirk
  54. Highland Cat Killing and Cat Demons
  55. Beachcombed 51
  56. Daily History Picture: American Indian Looks Down on Doom

August 2014

  1. Index Biography #10: Prize = a good book
  2. Thumb-Kissing Irish-Style
  3. The Ashanti Ewer
  4. Review: Mrs Wakeman vs. The Antichrist
  5. Napoleon and the Red Man: Selling Your Soul for European Dominion
  6. Thoughts on the Internet Revolution
  7. Preferring Hell to Heaven: Machiavelli
  8. Punishing Suicide
  9. The Other Dream Team: Basketball and the Baltic
  10. The Oldest Flame
  11. Jane Stanley Paints Castle-An-Dinas
  12. Zwanze in Wartime Brussels
  13. In Search of Enys Tregarthen: ‘The Little Cripple’
  14. The Last Shot at Waterloo
  15. Searching for the Author of ‘Do Not Stand at My Grave’
  16. Dealing with Chronic Conditions
  17. Catholics, Dead Sheep and Fire Balls in Early Modern England
  18. Ancient Chinese Automata
  19. Watch Out for the Fairies Among Us!
  20. Hidden Flags
  21. Mexican Indians Glow in the Dark
  22. Prince Jean Comes Home
  23. Strange Encounter in Ninth-Century Tunisia
  24. The Cherokees’ Mediterranean Origins!?
  25. Prophetic German Poster, 1918
  26. Review: The Adventures of Hergé
  27. Roman Killing Theatre
  28. Animal Sacrifices in Christianity?!
  29. Unusual Wild West Duels
  30. The Great War Begins: The 10 Most Resonant Moments

July 2014

  1. Beachcombed 50
  2. Index Biography #9 Prize = A Good Book
  3. Spying Commandments, 1918
  4. Review: Hobberdy Dick
  5. The Golden Ghost of Mold #6: A Cornish Parallel
  6. The First Mythbuster?
  7. A Vampire Story: Decapitating Dad
  8. The Singing War
  9. Irish Colony in Medieval Spain!?
  10. Migration, Inundation… Top Scorers
  11. Nobs and Plebs in Irish Courts
  12. Review : The Book of Grimoires
  13. Meteorite Weapons
  14. Papal Sorceror?
  15. So You Want to Become an Early Modern Witch: 16 Steps
  16. Image: The Hands Haven’t It
  17. Practical Joke: The Wife Hunter
  18. Last Zombie Burial in Western Europe?
  19. Female Poison Circles
  20. The Somers Affair: A Pirate Fantasy and Three Nooses
  21. Apocalypse Demographics in Fiction and Film
  22. The Knight, the Lance and the Lightning Bolt
  23. Close Encounter of the Zeppelin Kind
  24. Seeing Fairies is Out: Lost Manuscript Found
  25. Burning Libraries: A Saucy Roman History Book
  26. Immortal Meals #15: Full Up at Ferrara
  27. Nineteenth-Century Gravegoods in Somerset
  28. The Ten Stupidest Duels in History
  29. Treasure Dragon Graffiti in Orkney
  30. First World War Began in Restaurant in France?
  31. Three Wellingtons To Rule Them All and Hair Jewellery

June 2014

  1. Beachcombed 49
  2. Index Biography #8
  3. Review: Seven Myths About Education
  4. Fighting Over a Tennis Court
  5. Ghost Universals and Human Universals
  6. Romans and Matron Poisoners: 190 Killed
  7. Boy Genius Washed Up from Shipwreck In Wales?
  8. Blue Bottoms and Samurai in 17 C. Spain
  9. Starving Duel in Idaho
  10. Burning Libraries: The Oregon Trail
  11. Buried In a Fish’s Belly
  12. African Ape in Iron Age Ireland?
  13. Do Fairies Hate Lawnmowers?
  14. ISIS and Their Historical Caliphate Cobblers
  15. The Horror of 69 Charlotte Street
  16. Comparing Present Money with Past Money
  17. Prodigious Portrait of a Seven-Headed Monster
  18. Immortal Meals #14: Food Orgy on Twelfth Night
  19. First Blood in the Great War?
  20. Were Ancient or Modern Soldiers More Likely to Die?
  21. Last Meals of US Condemned
  22. Hallucinogenic Fairies on the Isle of Wight?
  23. Problems Accessing Google Books Outside the US?
  24. Why Did the Axis Fight the US?
  25. How to Train a Griffin!
  26. Remembering and Forgetting Robert Herrick
  27. Giraffes in Medieval China
  28. A Travelling Chair
  29. Dragons in Sixteenth-Century Devon?

May 2014

  1. Beachcombed 48
  2. The Index Biography #7 Prize = a Good Book
  3. Islands, Epidemics and Local Knowledge
  4. Historical Barbies: Warning Shallow Post!
  5. Johnny Norton: Electric Boy!
  6. Rommel in the Shenandoah?!
  7. The Non-Discovery of Shuck
  8. Love Goddess #10: Lactating German Virtues
  9. Religious Mania at Torrox
  10. Science, Neurology and Being Misled by Fairies
  11. A Duel in the Middle of a Battle!
  12. Slaughter Hounds in Celtic Ireland
  13. Review: The Ex Kaiser in Exile
  14. The Fortune Teller and the Children Tax
  15. In Defence of the Dark Ages
  16. Swearing Fetuses and the English Sausage Seller
  17. The Cuckold’s Horns
  18. Telegraph Wire and Oasis Jewellery
  19. Caesar and a German Unicorn?
  20. Homemade Beer at the Vampire Inn
  21. Father Degan and the Dancers
  22. In Search of Doggerbank: The Island of the Damned
  23. Power and Ageing: Blair, Bush, Clinton, Obama and Thatcher
  24. Love Goddess #9: Damian Hirst’s Madonna
  25. Facts, Myths and Jean McConville
  26. Duelling Schoolboys
  27. Hawker and the Pixy?
  28. Killing After Surrender in WW2: Parachutes and Submarines
  29. 1937 Cornish Black Dog Scare
  30. Fighting the Plains Trains
  31. Neo-Pagan Partisans

April 2014

  1. Beachcombed 47
  2. The Index Biography #6: Prize = A Good Book
  3. 11 Burning Libraries: Book Lovers Beware
  4. High Noon at Carcassonne
  5. Egyptian Quisling in Canaan?
  6. A Pre-Christian Custom in Eighteenth-Century Scotland?
  7. White Indians in Brazil, 1953?
  8. Nessie as Biker and the Exorcism of the Loch
  9. Jan Ziska, the Human Drum?
  10. Last Casualty of the Great War?
  11. Image: Bloody Babs Says Goodbye to Tommy
  12. John Farkas: Fire Boy!
  13. Flirty Fishing: Evangelical Prostitution
  14. Britain and Pearl Harbor
  15. Fiume under D’Annunzio: An Incubator of Evil
  16. Headless Witch Zombies in Nineteenth-Century England!
  17. 8000 Year Old Memories in Oregon?
  18. Who Built Offa’s Dyke?
  19. The Spy Who Loved Me? Semen and Espionage
  20. A Medieval Brass Robot and the Unutterable Name of God
  21. Rabies and Dog’s Liver Cure
  22. The American Civil War: An Exceptionally Nice Conflict?
  23. Brought Up By A Tree
  24. Human Trousers from Iceland
  25. A Jewish Hitler?
  26. The Rossendale Fairies Photographed?
  27. A Year-Long Dance in the Eleventh Century?
  28. Hari-Kiri at the Hague?
  29. Migrating Birds and the Edge of the World
  30. Gordon Selby: The Luckiest Survivor of WW2?

March 2014

  1. Beachcombed 46
  2. The Index Biography 5#: Prize = A Good Book
  3. Love Goddess #8: Simonetta Vespucci
  4. Totalitarian Leaders, Urban Legends and Motorbikes
  5. Expert Opinion on Deadly Free Fall
  6. How to Make a Mummy: According to Bob Brier and Robert Wade
  7. Madame Caillavah and Her Nineteenth-Century Gold Detector
  8. A Medieval Phoenix and Heliopolis
  9. Ghostly Stone Throwing in Kent, 1918
  10. Declaring War in WW2: National Styles
  11. Forgotten Kingdom: Inbetween Saddleworth
  12. A Strange Camera Obscura at Blackpool
  13. A Fourteen Thousand Year Old Legend from Australia?
  14. Did the Greeks Build the Terracotta Army?
  15. Human Drum at Rennes
  16. Why Didn’t the Vikings Bring Disease to the Americas?
  17. Unofficial Law and Order
  18. The Stalags: Israeli Holocaust Erotica
  19. British Truth and American Lies?
  20. Molotov, Poetic Justice and Outer Mongolia
  21. Witch Ducking and Three in a Bed
  22. A Letter Between Enemies, 1915
  23. Immortal Meals #13: Buttock Eating in Milton (Berkshire)
  24. A Missing History of the Kings of the Franks in Cairo!
  25. Russian Fireball Weirdness, 1663
  26. Brazen Heads and Medieval Robots?
  27. Fairies, Arson and Banknotes in Co. Donegal
  28. Jasper Maskelyne and Magic Machine Guns in WW2
  29. Whose Child?
  30. American Indian Map Making: A Rare Talent?
  31. McConnel’s Passing: An At Death Encounter?

February 2014

  1. Beachcombed 45
  2. The Index Biography #4: Prize = A Good Book
  3. Colonel Fowler and the Mammoth, 1887
  4. The Myth of Unbloody Zagonora
  5. The Most Beautiful Folk Cure: An Epilepsy Ring
  6. The First New Orleans Mardi Gras: Bears and Transvestites
  7. Review: Walter Starkie, An Odyssey
  8. Plato Meets the Meteorite: Solon, Egypt and Atlantis
  9. History and Earthquakes
  10. The Mummy, the Slitter and the Mortuary Mob
  11. The Most Exciting School Trip in History: 21 June 1919
  12. Finns, Magic and Murder
  13. Tomatoes and Poison: Humanity’s Innate Conservatism
  14. A Forgotten (Fairy?) People: the Ranties
  15. Interview: Invasion Scares (Harry Wood)
  16. The Earliest Moustache in History?
  17. Submarine Weapons Before Torpedoes: Gloves, Javelins and Greek Fire
  18. Review: Return of the Ancestral Gods
  19. A Beautiful Korean Water Thief
  20. Small Pox: the Native American Version
  21. Magic Bathing in the Far North
  22. Starting the First World War Early: The Three Virgins
  23. Britain’s First Glider: Charles Spencer
  24. Where Are the American Fairies?
  25. From the Grenadier to the Beer Shop (via Mickey Mouse and Pussy Cat)
  26. Review: Good Italy Bad Italy
  27. A French Crusader and A Chinese Sword?
  28. Did You Hear the One About Nessie, the Sceptic and the Water Horse?

January 2014

  1. Beachcombed 44
  2. The Index Biography #3: Prize = A Good Book
  3. How To Be Cool at an Academic Conference
  4. The Royal Navy and Dogs of War
  5. In Search of the Lamia in Ethiopia?
  6. How To Create A Golden Age: Instructions for Use
  7. The Dragon of Dornoch?
  8. Water Thief Watcher
  9. The Dragon’s Tail! A Continent or a Ghost?
  10. A Pregnant Christ?!
  11. Condoned Torture and Revenge in Eighteenth-Century New Orleans
  12. The Pope and His Tanks
  13. Horror and Scarcity: Reading Supernatural Fiction
  14. Pre-Columbian Trips to America? Ballast!
  15. 14 Agege Motor Road, Idi-Oro, Mushin: the Kalakuta Republic!
  16. Medieval Shamanic Account from Iceland
  17. Invisible Star Trek Library
  18. Purring: A Taxonomy and an Exhibition at Wigan
  19. Bonus Amicus: A Medieval Mr Ed?
  20. The British and Invasions
  21. Zeus in China?
  22. ROLFUDRETUS and Last Country Standing
  23. Welsh Leaf Mould, Pies and Cunning Magic
  24. The Venkov Lenin: the Bizarre Fate of a Communist Era Statue
  25. The Sphinx: Bushed, Plumed and Painted
  26. Miraculous Survival with Parachute
  27. Epiphany Gift #4: The John O’London Fairy Letters!
  28. Spirit Photo Fakes: Katie King
  29. A French Bombing Operation in London, 1984!
  30. Chinese Dragons Head West
  31. German Invasion Force in London, 1909!

2013 365

December 2013

  1. Beachcombed 43
  2. More, Good Digestion and a Prayer
  3. Review: Party in the Blitz
  4. A Scottish Earthquake Remembered?
  5. A Newland to the West of Iceland 1285?
  6. English Vampire in Spain
  7. The Inevitability of the First World War
  8. The Most Dysfunctional Family in History: the Ptolemies
  9. The Durham Lights 3#: The Margaret and Jane
  10. Finns, Snow and Magic
  11. Was Nessie a Kelpie?
  12. Carter, Poland and a Translator
  13. Montanelli and the Martyrs of Spielberg
  14. The Durham Lights #2: The Candidates
  15. Tens of Thousands of Egyptian Mummies in English Soil?
  16. Swan Courts?
  17. Flying Boy Across the Mersey?
  18. The Durham Lights #1: Introduction
  19. The Gannet Club: Parachuteless in WW2
  20. Maid of Hatfield: English Shaman Shyster
  21. The Wessel Coins 5#: Ian McIntosh Interview
  22. In Praise of Bouncer and Co
  23. In Search of the Hippophugi
  24. The Duke, His Brother and the Locomotive
  25. Men Wearing Mirrors: Portuguese Conquistador in Northern Australia?
  26. Fairies and Funerals
  27. Fitzgerald’s Dagger and a Child Thief
  28. The Medieval Water That Would Not Boil!
  29. Selling Alaska/Louisiana/Manhattan by the Pound
  30. Killing a Nineteenth-Century Nessie
  31. Napoleon and the Great Pyramid: Myth and Reality

November 2013

  1. Beachcombed 42
  2. The Index Biography #2: Prize = Imaginary Animals
  3. Review: Imaginary Animals
  4. Monotheistic Moments
  5. Weird Cirencester Report
  6. Irish and Africans: A Peculiar Nineteenth-Century English Obsession
  7. Romans and Fairies?
  8. The Place of Still Born Children
  9. The Wood County Creature!!!
  10. Jokes from WW1
  11. Arty Monarchs
  12. Bowing to Horses and Dragon’s Blood!
  13. The First Pictured Sub Saharan African?
  14. The Wessel Coins #4: The Article
  15. Dreaming Murder in Parliament #11: A Conclusion
  16. How Islam Created the Italian Renaissance
  17. The Last Single Combat?
  18. Crashing into yourself in the air?!
  19. The Last Stoning in Ireland
  20. Dreaming Murder in Parliament #10: John Williams, the Dirt (and Tin)
  21. Baby Eating Eagles #2: Video Evidence?
  22. Deadly Sweets and Biological Warfare in WW1
  23. Death’s Fluttering Wings: Photos
  24. Chinese Pied Pipers?
  25. Dropping Things from Planes in WW1
  26. Crypto Fairy Hippo Cow in Scotland and Ireland?!
  27. Dreaming Murder in Parliament #9: Mr Fox Speaks (or Lies)!
  28. Dumb Duels #1: Finn vs O’Hara
  29. The Death of the Roman Republic

October 2013

  1. River Mermaids in Southern Spain
  2. Beachcombed 41
  3. The Index Biography #1: Prize = The Ghost Wore Black
  4. Review: The Ghost Wore Black
  5. A Russian Prince in Seventeenth-Century Rural England?
  6. Jokes From World War 2
  7. Dreaming Murder in Parliament #8: Abercrombie and a Friend from Madras Speak!
  8. Were-Storks and the Origins of Storks’ Baby Carrying!
  9. The Law and Cauls
  10. Tolkien, a Poppy and the Death of Traditional Fairies
  11. Dreaming Murder in Parliament 7#: Perceval Speaks!
  12. Hot Mermaids from Renaissance Venice!
  13. The Good Friday Agreement, Teletext and an Anonymous Phone-Caller
  14. Dreaming Murder in Parliament #6: The Bude Kirk Rumours
  15. Medieval Horse Whispering
  16. Authority in the Village from Italy to Ireland
  17. Why Do Married Couples Sleep in the Same Bed?
  18. Dreaming Murder in Parliament #5: Andrew Lang Speaks!
  19. Child Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Italy
  20. Dreaming Murder in Parliament #4: The Dreamer Speaks!
  21. Twelve Best History Montages
  22. The Bird Whisperer!
  23. Dreaming Murder in Parliament #3: The Earliest Account
  24. Paranormal Smells
  25. Dreaming Murder in Parliament #2: The Event
  26. Bread and Drowning
  27. Dreaming Murder in Parliament #1: Arthur Speaks
  28. The Mystery of Hadrian’s Wall
  29. Funeral Fights
  30. Jokes About the World Wars
  31. The Moment the Cold War Ended (according to Anthony Robbins!)
  32. Last State Persecuted Witch in Europe

September 2013

  1. Beachcombed 40
  2. Jumping the Broomstick
  3. The Lion That Didn’t Roar!
  4. The West Without Christianity: Neo-Platonism, Allah or Jupiter?
  5. Execution Substitution: Has It Ever Happened?
  6. Fairy and Diary
  7. Review: The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England
  8. The Existence of the Mermaid is Now Certain c. 1794
  9. Spirit Photo Fakes
  10. African in Tenth-Century Britain
  11. Fairies and Potatoes
  12. American Indians in Twelfth-Century Germany #2: The Portuguese
  13. Cycling and Florence: To Whom Do Cities Belong?
  14. American Indians in Twelfth-Century Germany?! #1: Hakluyt
  15. Travelling to Another World from Nineteenth-century Rochdale
  16. Horse Whispering Witch
  17. The Maps of Michael Izady
  18. Spectacle in the Victorian Theatre
  19. Unlucky Days: Rufus Fears Speaks
  20. Review: The Hikey Sprites
  21. Hooping Cough Cures
  22. Weird Birth Omen and the Youngest Roman Emperor
  23. The Things We Couldn’t Say
  24. The Axe Murderer Who Became A National Hero
  25. Boggart Catching
  26. Burning Lesbians
  27. Cauls in the Deep South
  28. Professional Pipe Smoking
  29. Imaginary Kingdoms
  30. Unripe Bananas and Almost Meeting Charles Dickens: The Index Biography

August 2013

  1. Beachcombed 39
  2. Hydropathy: Roby Comes Through
  3. Fear and Black Dogs
  4. Totalitarian Bizarreness
  5. Okinawa and Three Dead Marines
  6. Pre-Viking Vikings in the Faroes?
  7. Victorian Lesbian Cobblers
  8. Strange Fairy Encounter, Co Limerick 1939
  9. Ardeatine and Truth
  10. Knock on Wood/Head
  11. The Amphibiotic Ablutionists
  12. Fairy Knick Knacks: The Five Strangest
  13. The Golden Ghost of Mold #5: Against the Golden Ghost!
  14. Do Black Dogs (with burning eyes) Hate Fairies?
  15. The Golden Ghost of Mold #4: Ludlam’s Account
  16. The Longest Sentry Duty
  17. The Golden Ghost of Mold #3: The Golden Woman of Mold
  18. Two-Hundred-Year-Old Memories of Dunbar?
  19. The Golden Ghost of Mold #2: Walter Johnson Debases Gold
  20. Pfil and Pamela: Fairies of Eastern Promise?
  21. The Golden Ghost of Mold #1: Introducing the Golden Ghost
  22. Eaten by Rats?
  23. Review: Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay
  24. Go Web Young Man: Why Books Are Dying
  25. Bullet Proof Mormon Underwear?
  26. Fairies in Space
  27. Lloyd’s Head
  28. H.F.Morton and Boggarts
  29. The Allies and NOT Faking the Holocaust
  30. Laddering: Making Jerry Pay
  31. The Magic of Monkey

July 2013

  1. Beachcombed 38
  2. Blunt Swords and the American Civil War
  3. In Search of Allied Atrocity Photographs
  4. Eighteenth-Century East Riding Fairies?
  5. Image: Murder of Woman and Child at Ivanhorod
  6. The Wessel Coins #3: Kilwa and its Sultanate
  7. Women and Trains
  8. Giant Spiders in Bristol
  9. Forgotten Kingdoms: The Gagauz and Identity Problems
  10. The Wessel Coins #2: The Coins
  11. Treasure-Hunting in Lancs
  12. It is a fact universally acknowledged that an Inuit in possession…
  13. Flying Drums in Tibet
  14. A Suicidal Ghost
  15. Colonialism and Burying the Irish Under Buildings
  16. Review: Barry, Witchcraft and Demonology
  17. Evans-Wentz and a Missing Thesis
  18. Vindictive Welsh Saints
  19. The Wessel Coins #1: Morry Isenberg’s Discovery
  20. A Coincidence in the County Palatine?
  21. Forgotten Kingdoms: Enclave London!
  22. The Nazis and Their Fairy Friends: Sidhe Heil!
  23. The Bull of Brandlesholme (another reason to avoid Lancashire)
  24. Image: Hammer and Sickle Time on the Reichstag
  25. Fastest Marchers
  26. Weird Jobs in the 1881 UK Census
  27. The Schist Disc: A Sceptic Speaks
  28. Scooby Doo Crime 2#: Shag and the Bleachworks
  29. Crowds #7: Fleeing
  30. Turning Back the Years in Oz
  31. Coulrophobia and Cricket

June 2013

  1. Beachcombed 37
  2. Dreams of Murder
  3. The Last European Lion
  4. The Greatest Marine of WWII?
  5. Sex, Teachers and Students
  6. Faking in Ninetenth-Century Seances
  7. Fewest Casualties…
  8. French Witch Body Vandalism
  9. Transvestite Protestors: Why, When and Where?
  10. The First Domesticated Animal? Clue: Slime
  11. Magonia #9: The Myth Continues
  12. Strange Air Battle in the Caucasus
  13. Running Naked in the Nineteenth Century
  14. Magonia #8: The Comte de Gabalis and the Sylphs
  15. Totoro and Kiki: A Tribute
  16. Peter, Abraham and Muhammad on the Wrong Side of the Urals
  17. Magonia #7: Grimaldus and Chemical Warfare
  18. Swiss Zulus
  19. Blood at El-Halia
  20. Magonia #6: Leland Sings Magonia
  21. Buried Alive in Ninteenth-Century India
  22. Vision Quest #3: Witch Lotions
  23. Jasper and Butternuts on the Edges of Vinland
  24. Magonia #5: What’s In A Name?
  25. William Thornber and the Witches, Boggarts, Sorcerers and People of the Fylde
  26. Nine Historical Mysteries
  27. Sex Madness!
  28. Review: The Terror That Comes in the Night
  29. Magonia #4: Sky Ships and Moebius Strips
  30. Missing Children in Nineteenth-Century London

May 2013

  1. Beachcombed 36
  2. Vision Quest #2: The Rainbow Enema
  3. Brownies of Bangor
  4. Inscribed Egg from Lancashire
  5. Indians in Australia, c. 2000 B.C.?
  6. Magonia #3: The Tempestarii
  7. A Bugged Conversation from June 1945?
  8. Review: Borderlands
  9. The Hell of Being Christopher Robin
  10. Christian Indians in Sixteenth-Century Brazil?
  11. Review: Cunning Folk
  12. Cat Cruelty in Nineteenth-Century Magic
  13. Magonia #2: Agobard of Lyons
  14. Soul-Selling in Nineteenth-Century London
  15. Brunelleschi’s Cruellest Practical Joke
  16. Magonia #1: Introducing a Medieval Cloud Cuckoo Land
  17. In Search of the Science Behind Misleading Wisps
  18. Forgotten Kingdoms: August Gissler’s Cocos
  19. The Boggarts of Royde and Royd
  20. Dowry Fossil
  21. Halley’s Comet and the Generations!
  22. Lawrence’s Missing Tree
  23. Soul Selling in Eighteenth-Century London
  24. Witches and Brambles
  25. Academic Quotations from Aged Newspapers
  26. Astrology and Burning Cities
  27. Athens and Ghosts
  28. Grazing Sheep, Rutting Tortoises and Academic Books
  29. Hob and Documentation
  30. Ragamuffin Purring in 1873 (Preston)
  31. Amazons 5#: Some Truths? Don’t Count On It…

April 2013

  1. Beachcombed 35
  2. The Earliest Description of a Zoo?
  3. Botched Beheadings
  4. Amazons #4: The Amazons Fight the Spaniards
  5. Blood Rain at Stoke Edith
  6. The Children of Bjelaja-Zerkow
  7. Amazons 3#: Owned by the Amazons
  8. Grotesque Mesalliances
  9. ‘Bloody Foreigners’ and English
  10. Amazons 2#: ‘They’ll Kill You’
  11. Witches in Nineteenth-Century Hastings
  12. Fairies, Children of the Forest and Game of Thrones
  13. Amazons 1#: First Contact
  14. When Cats Killed Men
  15. Vision Quest 1#: Blood Loss
  16. Weighing Witches
  17. Hebrew Invasion of Bedroom
  18. Death As A Basketball
  19. Mrs T’s Revolving Eyes
  20. Fairy Witches #3: Meilyr of Wales
  21. The Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Are More Rainbow Coloured on the Other Side of the Fence
  22. Witches Walking Upside Down
  23. Four Strange Suicides
  24. Juliana Jumps
  25. The Evils of Chess!
  26. Death By Basketball
  27. Why Isn’t Modern Fairy Fiction Frightening?
  28. Shakespeare’s Missing Head
  29. British Witch Initiation c. 1970
  30. The Postcard Terrorists

March 2013

  1. Beachcombed 34
  2. Review: Secret of Kells
  3. Lords of Karma and Military Reincarnation
  4. Non-Existent Werewolf Boy and the Lord of the Forest(s)
  5. The Lonely Cottages: Ancoats
  6. Bleeding-heart Yard and Nineteenth-century London Witches
  7. Decisions Within
  8. The Cipher Wheel, Bacon and Digging Up A River
  9. Fairy Witches 2#: Bessie Dunlop
  10. Lord Acton’s Lost Work
  11. The Name ‘America’ and Amerigo Vespucci
  12. Dogs of God! Christian Werewolves?
  13. The Last Witch in Dorset?
  14. Capital Problems
  15. Fairy Exorcisms in the Hebrides
  16. Germania: A Nightmare Deferred
  17. Pimping Your Noble Sister in Wartime Naples
  18. Fairy Witches #1: Joan Tyrry of Taunton
  19. Mather’s Fortean Rulebook
  20. Irish Ghosts and Irish Judges: the House on the Marsh
  21. Mass Misunderstandings and Worse
  22. Is the Pope Catholic?
  23. Zen Letters and Names
  24. History and Teenagers
  25. Review: Witches, Fantasies and Fairies
  26. Who Needs Anti-Aircraft Guns When You Have Saints?
  27. The Godly Tape Recorder
  28. Lucy Bruce, Iona and the Fairy Investigation Society
  29. England’s First Anomalist and A Missing Manuscript?
  30. Feline Paws through History
  31. The Undead in Medieval Buckinghamshire!

February 2013

  1. Beachcombed 33
  2. A Fisherman’s Tale or a Venetian Invention?
  3. The Mostly Lost Writings of Netta Fornario/Mac Tyler/Marie Fornario
  4. Jim’s Missing Book
  5. Broad Beans, Paschal Candles and Graveside Stories
  6. The Voting Diaspora
  7. Love Goddess #7: The I-Love-You Wall
  8. Boggart of Shatton
  9. A Mysterious Island, Incest and a Twelfth-century Papal Letter
  10. A Medieval Zombie in Berwick!
  11. Review: The Face in the Window
  12. Richard III: Between the Bust and the Face
  13. In Search of the Tooth of the Fairy Dog
  14. An English Queen and Child Abuse?
  15. The Lost Zen Letters: A Cautionary Tale about Children and Archives
  16. Goa the Golden
  17. Inuit in Aberdeen?
  18. British Occultists and World War II
  19. A Magpie Parliament?
  20. The Celtic Church: A Defence of Kinds
  21. Reds and Blues in the Persian Gulf
  22. Luck, Shysters and Jack O’Lantern
  23. Frobisher’s Missing Five
  24. Viking Zombie
  25. Henry VIII and Killing
  26. Italy’s Weird Languages
  27. Hitler’s Bizarre Sex Life?
  28. Inuit in Orkney?

January 2013

  1. Beachcombed 32
  2. Mysterious Death on Iona, 1929
  3. Miskito: A Forgotten Early Modern Kingdom
  4. Inuit as an Unlikely Source for Medieval Charts
  5. Review: Running with the Fairies
  6. Post-Mortem Occult Discovery
  7. Wanted Balkan King!
  8. I’ve Been In This House Before…
  9. Love Goddess #6: All Hail Northumberlandia!
  10. Wiccans and Fairy Shamans: Priority?
  11. In Search of Exotic Blood in Europe, 1000-1900
  12. Immortal Meals #12: The Feast to End all Feasts
  13. Forgotten Kingdom: The Bird-Shit Island
  14. Burning Libraries: Episode Four of the Lost Planet
  15. The Mysterious End of the Western Settlement
  16. Image: Old New Meets New Old
  17. Edwin Drood and Spirit Resolution
  18. Into the Lion’s Mouth
  19. Bishop Erik’s Unorthodox Trip, 1121
  20. Immortal Meals #11: Feasts at Hambledon Hill
  21. Love Goddess #5: Agnes ‘Madonna’ Sorel
  22. The Loss of the Douglas C-54-D in 1950
  23. Thirteenth-century Viking Legend in Canada?
  24. Invisible Library from Belgium: the Fortsas Catalogue
  25. Irish-speaking Argentinean Indians!!
  26. Britain’s ‘Indian’ Prime Minister
  27. Epiphany Gift: New Frontiers!
  28. CCSVI: The Limits of Placebo
  29. Silent Fairies
  30. Tanfield Valley: Europeans in Pre-Columbian Baffin Island?
  31. The Black Dossier and an Invisible Library

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