2016–2025

2025 1

May 2025

1. 6 MayThe Deerness Mermaid: Our Best Attested Nineteenth-Century Cryptid

2024 6

July 2024

1. 1 JulAre Mermaids Fairies?

June 2024

1. 1 JunEarly Modern Fairy Sex Spell

May 2024

1. 1 MayKarl Banse: The Man Who Made the Case for Mermaids

February 2024

1. 24 FebVictorian Urban Legends: Fine Art
2. 24 FebHeadingley Monster
3. 5 FebThe Wood Diva

2023 12

December 2023

1. 12 DecThe Dancing Fairies of Sennen Cove:

November 2023

1. 1 NovThe Modern Western Ghost and Its Zombie Origins

October 2023

1. 1 OctHorse Spirits: Colt-Pixy or Pixy-Colt?

September 2023

1. 1 SepThe When of Levitation in the West

August 2023

1. 1 AugThe Fairy Census: End Game

July 2023

1. 1 JulImmortals and Itinerants

June 2023

1. 1 JunDevil at the Wedding (Ritual)

May 2023

1. 1 MayThe Voodoo Soldiers of Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh

April 2023

1. 1 AprZombies and Shapechangers in Medieval Yorkshire

February 2023

1. 28 FebPitchforks and Witchcraft in Nineteenth-Century Warwickshire

January 2023

1. 31 JanEarly New Fairy Wing Reference
2. 1 JanDo You Feel Lucky, Historian?

2022 17

November 2022

1. 1 NovGhosts and ‘Our Own Dear Dead’

October 2022

1. 1 OctThe Fewston Witches: A Yorkshire Coven

September 2022

1. 1 SepFairy Fashions: The Three Rules

August 2022

1. 27 AugVictorian Urban Legends: Story-Killers!
2. 1 AugVictorian Urban Legends: Coffin Child

July 2022

1. 8 JulVictorian Urban Legends: The Smiths and the Rookery
2. 1 JulJohn Clare and ‘Will O Wisp’

June 2022

1. 20 JunVictorian Urban Legends: Canine Protector
2. 10 JunVictorian Urban Legends: The Gentleman Crossing-Sweeper
3. 4 JunVictorian Urban Legends: Incognito Aristocrat

May 2022

1. 28 MayVictorian Urban Legends: Nose Duel
2. 1 MayExplaining Death Omens

April 2022

1. 1 AprHeadless Badgers and Witchy Rabbits

March 2022

1. 1 MarWorking a Spell at Boggart Hole Clough

February 2022

1. 14 FebThe Boggart: A Study in Shadows

January 2022

1. 30 JanDark Thoughts on the Wollaton Gnomes
2. 8 JanPoltergeists and the Boggle Factor

2021 4

November 2021

1. 28 NovAnn Jefferies and the Fairies: A Cornish Fairy Witch

October 2021

1. 30 OctBritish and Irish Women in Black Spirits
2. 20 OctGetting Spiked: A New Social Contagion?

September 2021

1. 28 SepThe Scariest British Fairy Encounter? The Elf Dancers of Cae Caled (&Podcast)

2020 5

December 2020

1. 1 DecUrban Legend? Razor Blades Behind Posters

June 2020

1. 30 JunA Manx Wizard in Victorian Liverpool
2. 25 JunGhost or Fairy on the Road from Wilden to Ravensden?
3. 17 JunGhosts and Fairies Attacking Railways
4. 2 JunBeachcombing’s Back

2019 1

March 2019

1. 18 MarCatching a Leprechaun: A Modern Morality Tale

2018 183

December 2018

1. 24 DecChristmas Update

May 2018

1. 11 MayFamily Emergency
2. 10 MayDaily History Picture: Marijuana Hell
3. 9 MayDaily History Picture: Signing Peace
4. 8 MayDaily History Picture: British Troops Post Mareth
5. 8 MayBiggest European Cities: 1800-2018
6. 7 MayDaily History Picture: Kill the Dragon
7. 6 MayMermaid Monday: Brewster Mermaid
8. 5 MayDaily History Picture: German Space Program
9. 5 MayImmortal Meals #36: Courtesan and Parsley
10. 3 MayDaily History Picture: Headless Men
11. 3 MayThe Aura Machine!
12. 2 MayGraffiti Trick Against the Persians
13. 1 MayDaily History Picture: Wright Flies in New York
14. 1 MayWhat Poltergeists Do and Poltergeist Noise

April 2018

1. 30 AprBeachcombed 95
2. 29 AprIndex Biography #53: Prize a book
3. 28 AprJack the Ripper and the Spiritualists
4. 28 AprBeware Fairy Home Invasion!
5. 26 AprDaily History Picture: Cigs Per Head
6. 26 AprA Motor Car A Hundred Years Too Early
7. 25 AprDaily History Picture: Greek Slingshot
8. 24 AprDaily History Picture: Early Modern Swimming
9. 24 AprVictorian Fancy Dress
10. 23 AprDaily History Picture: Egyptian Spelling
11. 23 AprSmuggling by Hot Air Balloon, 1838
12. 22 AprDaily History Picture: Egyptian Eye Code
13. 22 AprMermaid Monday: Thames Monster!
14. 21 AprMonsters with Eyes Like Saucers
15. 21 AprWhen Muhammad Rose from the Dead
16. 19 AprDaily History Picture: Paris Fainting 1967
17. 18 AprDaily History Picture: Fort Sill Explosion
18. 17 AprDaily History Picture: Fairies Dancing
19. 17 AprMysterious Sloth Monster in Patagonia
20. 16 AprDaily History Picture: Franz Ferdinand Hunting
21. 16 AprABCs: When and What
22. 15 AprDaily History Picture: WW1 French soldiers
23. 15 AprMermaid Monday: Killed with Sticks
24. 15 AprThe Mysterious Case of the Falkland Toothpaste Tube
25. 13 AprDie of the Pox or on the Gallows?
26. 12 AprDaily History Picture: Germany Invades Britain
27. 12 AprYork-London Horse Race
28. 11 AprDaily History Picture: German Patrol in Alsace
29. 10 AprDaily History Picture: Ice Cold Drinks
30. 9 AprDaily History Picture: German WW1 Toys
31. 8 AprDaily History Picture: Ghost Illusion
32. 8 AprMermaid Monday: Lough Swilly Mermaid Encounter
33. 7 AprVictorian Urban Legend: Doppelganger
34. 6 AprIron Key to a Lost World
35. 5 AprDaily History Picture: Headless Ghost
36. 5 AprFairies in Seventeenth-Century Surrey
37. 5 AprAssassination by Plane
38. 4 AprDaily History Picture: German Cavalry WW2
39. 3 AprDaily History Picture: Ripper Cartoon
40. 2 AprDaily History Picture: John Wayne and Famous Drunk
41. 2 AprWhy Did the Chicken Cross the Road? History
42. 1 AprDaily History Picture: Malinowski Letter
43. 1 AprMermaid Monday: Doctor Examines Mermaid

March 2018

1. 31 MarBeachcombed 94
2. 30 MarIndex Biography #52: Prize a book
3. 30 MarCharles Montgomery Skinner, Rogue Researcher
4. 29 MarSeventh Bastard!
5. 28 MarDaily History Picture: Korean Poster
6. 27 MarDaily History Picture: Earthy Medieval Art
7. 26 MarDaily History Picture: Paolo and Francesca in Hell
8. 26 MarHanging a Twelve Year Old, Lancaster 1812
9. 25 MarDaily History Picture: New York Fairy, 1918
10. 25 MarMermaid Monday: Mermaid in London
11. 24 MarWilhelm and Alfred Meet Stalin
12. 22 MarDaily History Picture: Ghost Misunderstanding
13. 22 MarHelen Duncan and HMS Hood: A Coincidence?
14. 22 MarHelen Duncan and HMS Barham: A Sceptic Speaks
15. 21 MarDaily History Picture: Pooh at Hastings
16. 20 MarDaily History Picture: Blitz Reading
17. 19 MarDaily History Picture: Bikini Fine
18. 19 MarIf I Were Your Husband I Would Drink It: History of a Joke
19. 18 MarDaily History Picture: Romanian Soldiers WW1
20. 18 MarMermaid Monday: Grimsby Lady
21. 17 MarSpell: Grow a Little Man!
22. 16 MarWhat Happened to William Hare?
23. 15 MarDaily History Picture: Roma Children Prisoners
24. 15 MarBuddhist Sets Himself on Fire in Ancient Greece?
25. 14 MarDaily History Picture: Russian WW1 Artillery
26. 14 MarThree Beggar’d Tales
27. 14 MarGay Fairies: When and Why
28. 13 MarDaily History Picture: Sea Serpent 1848
29. 12 MarDaily History Picture: Royal Navy Mascot
30. 12 MarVictorian Urban Legend: Hypnotic Thievery
31. 12 MarMermaid Monday: Mermaid Exhibited in Rome
32. 11 MarDaily History Picture: Cutting Sunshine
33. 10 MarVictorian Urban Legend: Ox Ring
34. 10 MarCake-Eating Fairy in 19C Staffordshire
35. 9 MarGhosts and a Bleeding Corpse in the Courtroom
36. 8 MarDaily History Picture: Reading the Communist Manifesto
37. 8 MarThe Origins of Forehead Cross Tattoos?
38. 7 MarDaily History Picture: Clinton in the Bushes
39. 6 MarDaily History Picture: Birth Outside Marriage
40. 5 MarDaily History Picture: Medieval Children
41. 5 MarThe Coker Hill Haunting 4: The Counter Spells
42. 4 MarDaily History Picture: 1950s US Girl
43. 3 MarThe Coker Hill Haunting 3: A Witness
44. 2 MarThe Coker Hill Haunting 2: The Events
45. 1 MarDaily History Picture: Delightful Fairies
46. 1 MarThe Coker Hill Haunting 1: Dramatis Personae
47. 1 MarBeachcombed 93

February 2018

1. 27 FebIndex Biography #51: Prize a book
2. 26 FebDaily History Picture: WW2 German Tank Costs
3. 26 FebGerbert and a Tenth-Century Robot?
4. 26 FebMermaid Monday: Chocolate-Colour Backstroke Mermaid
5. 25 FebDaily History Picture: Soviet Nuclear Advice
6. 24 FebRadio Mistakes, Moscow 1941
7. 24 FebVictorian Urban Legend: The Nail Ghost
8. 22 FebDaily History Picture: Border Bells
9. 21 FebDaily History Picture: Wolf Attacks, France
10. 20 FebDaily History Picture: Tape Worm Advert
11. 19 FebDaily History Picture: Lost Lands
12. 19 FebGhost Riot and Fakery, 1897
13. 18 FebDaily History Picture: Three Tatler Girls
14. 18 FebJapanese Mermaid in India
15. 17 FebDoom! Doom! Doom!
16. 16 FebA Fairy Foot?
17. 15 FebDaily History Picture: Titania!
18. 15 FebWho Coined ‘World War’?
19. 14 FebDaily History Picture: Toby the Sapient Pig
20. 13 FebDaily History Picture: You Can Always Drink Wine…
21. 12 FebDaily History Picture: Truman Capote
22. 12 FebSnail Slime Love Spell
23. 11 FebDaily History Picture: WW1 German Attack
24. 11 FebMermaid Monday: Bread-Eating King-Killing Mer-Woman
25. 10 FebAn Ancient Count of St Germain
26. 10 FebWere There Really Arrow Storms?
27. 9 FebFear in a Handful of Dust
28. 8 FebDaily History Picture: Warrior Inflatable
29. 7 FebDaily History Picture: Progressive vs Moderate Thinker
30. 6 FebDaily History Picture: Watching Atomic Test, Las Vegas
31. 5 FebDaily History Picture: Roosevelt in Wheelchair
32. 5 FebA Tudor Elevator?
33. 4 FebDaily History Picture: Witch Map
34. 4 FebMermaid Monday: Mermaid Trade, 1878
35. 3 FebMan at Station Changes Course of War
36. 3 FebChildren and Stories and School
37. 1 FebDaily History Picture: Book of Hours

January 2018

1. 31 JanBeachcombed 92
2. 31 JanIndex Biography #50: Prize a book
3. 29 JanDaily History Picture: Young Merkel, Young Love
4. 29 JanCivil War Horse Luck
5. 28 JanDaily History Picture: Books Where Everybody Dies
6. 28 JanMermaid Monday: Danish Mermaid, 1749
7. 27 JanThe Wild Hunt of 1127
8. 26 JanOne Duel Eight Dead
9. 26 JanTruant Lover Spell
10. 25 JanDaily History Picture: Arch Duke Ferdinand and Family
11. 24 JanDaily History Picture: Language Changes
12. 23 JanDaily History Picture: Austrian Artillery
13. 23 JanEbola in Eighteenth-Century England?
14. 22 JanDaily History Picture: NY Taxi, 1980s
15. 22 JanGoblins Under the Bed
16. 21 JanDaily History Picture: Hitler’s Brain
17. 21 JanMermaid Monday: Breton Mermaid
18. 20 JanVictorian Urban Legends: Wrong Trousers
19. 20 JanChinese Artillery Outside Baghdad
20. 19 JanHilarious Ghost-Ewe Incident in Scotland
21. 18 JanDaily History Picture: Social Fairy Problems
22. 17 JanDaily History Picture: New York Ants
23. 16 JanDaily History Picture: Pizza-Eating Suffragettes
24. 15 JanDaily History Picture: GPS 1920s-Style
25. 15 JanWhat are Fairy Trees?
26. 14 JanDaily History Picture: War Over, New York
27. 14 JanMermaid Monday: the Watra Mama
28. 13 JanViper Will
29. 12 JanMandans’ Arrows Feat
30. 12 JanThe Maddest Sports Bet: the Barclay Challenge
31. 11 JanDaily History Picture: Fairy Queen
32. 10 JanDaily History Picture: Rescued Slaves
33. 9 JanDaily History Picture: Confederate Prisoners
34. 9 JanDeath by Oak
35. 8 JanDaily History Picture: Sept 11
36. 8 JanObscene Mexican Japanese Generals
37. 7 JanDaily History Picture: Three Men in New York Park 1940s
38. 7 JanBaby Face Günter in Saverne
39. 6 JanChildren, Folklore and the Supernatural
40. 5 JanEpiphany Gift: Fairy Census
41. 5 JanWorld War 2 Rumours

2017 536

December 2017

1. 31 DecBeachcombed 91
2. 30 DecIndex Biography #49: Prize a book
3. 30 DecSwiss Girl vs German Army
4. 28 DecDaily History Picture: Victorian Street Kid
5. 27 DecDaily History Picture: How to Train a Dragon
6. 27 DecIowa Vampire
7. 26 DecDaily History Picture: Aarhus Stone
8. 26 DecRomanian Military Make-Up
9. 25 DecDaily History Picture: 17C Fairies
10. 25 DecWW1 Christmas Pics
11. 24 DecDaily History Picture: Early Midsummer Night
12. 24 DecThe Prince of Peace in a World at War
13. 23 DecChristmas Fairy Trees
14. 23 DecCalabrian Werewolf
15. 21 DecDaily History Picture: Careful of Those Legs
16. 20 DecDaily History Picture: Nazi Burial in England
17. 19 DecDaily History Picture: Blessing in War
18. 18 DecDaily History Picture: Good Neighbours?
19. 18 DecMysterious Carnivorous Plant Animal
20. 18 DecMermaid Monday: The Mermaid’s Tail in Argyll
21. 17 DecDaily History Picture: Luminous Lady
22. 16 DecFrozen Love Returns at Chamonix
23. 15 DecMargaret Murray: Sect Member?
24. 14 DecDaily History Picture: Scottish Sea Serpent
25. 14 DecVictorian Urban Legends: Missionary Tales
26. 13 DecDaily History Picture: Seminary Soccer
27. 12 DecDaily History Picture: Sigurd Kills
28. 12 DecGhost Wreck and Murdered Monkeys
29. 11 DecDaily History Picture: Sophia in the Garden
30. 11 DecKatharine Briggs: Some Thoughts
31. 11 DecMermaid Monday: Mermaid Baby Found
32. 10 DecDaily History Picture: Owl and War
33. 9 DecLobasha, A Psychic Boy Detective
34. 9 DecVictorian Urban Legend: Lady Vanishes
35. 7 DecDaily History Picture: Stonehenge
36. 6 DecDaily History Picture: Tattooing 1940s
37. 5 DecDaily History Picture: Heavy Seas
38. 5 DecUrban Legend: An Experiment in Transmission
39. 4 DecDaily History Picture: Two Worlds Meet
40. 4 DecThe Rise of the Vegan Fairies
41. 3 DecDaily History Picture: Fist Cup
42. 3 DecMermaid Monday: A Mad Mermaid?
43. 3 DecVictorian Urban Legend: The Missing Clock
44. 1 DecNew Book: Magical Folk
45. 1 DecBeachcombed 90

November 2017

1. 29 NovDaily History Picture: Owl Beauty
2. 29 NovIndex Biography #48: Prize a book
3. 28 NovDaily History Picture: US Nazi Rally
4. 27 NovDaily History Picture: Marilyn Kicks Off
5. 27 NovBig Brother Urban Legends
6. 26 NovDaily History Picture: Improvised Shovel
7. 26 NovMermaid Monday: Stoning Mermaids
8. 25 NovGhosts and Photo Fakes
9. 25 NovReview: Grossman, Life and Fate
10. 23 NovDaily History Picture: German Surrender at Normandy
11. 22 NovDaily History Picture: Germans Land in Canada
12. 21 NovDaily History Picture: Who is This?
13. 21 NovTurkey Horror in Ireland
14. 20 NovDaily History Picture: Niagra Veteran
15. 20 NovDevil Wings Mystery
16. 19 NovDaily History Picture: Goldminers, South Africa
17. 19 NovMermaid Monday: Eating Mermaids
18. 19 NovOstrich in Medieval China
19. 18 NovFairy Photographs from 1930
20. 16 NovDaily History Picture: How to Make a Ghost
21. 15 NovDaily History Picture: An Almost Handshake
22. 14 NovJamaican Immortal
23. 14 NovDaily History Picture: Reclaiming Atlantis
24. 13 NovDaily History Picture: Irish Vampire
25. 13 NovMussolini and the Water Sprinkler
26. 13 NovMermaid Monday: Nude Scottish Mermaids
27. 12 NovDaily History Picture: Gaelic Warband Fires Farm
28. 12 NovBraham’s Parrot
29. 11 NovThe Half Million Club: Biggest Ancient and Medieval Cities
30. 10 NovVictorian Urban Legends: the Lady of the Key
31. 9 NovDaily History Picture: Jewish Ritual
32. 9 NovHaunted Tree Swindle in Italy
33. 8 NovDaily History Picture: Judy Garland Relaxing
34. 7 NovDaily History Picture: Canvassing on the Beach
35. 6 NovDaily History Picture: Death of LHO
36. 6 NovReiki: Not Waving but Drowning
37. 5 NovDaily History Picture: Ku Klux Klan Clothes
38. 5 NovMermaid Monday: St Valery-sur-Somme Mermaid
39. 5 NovSphinx Dream
40. 4 NovThe Rolling Muff of Gross Isle
41. 2 NovDaily History Picture: School Fire
42. 2 NovThe History of the Playpen
43. 1 NovDaily History Picture: Last Cig
44. 1 NovBeachcombed 89

October 2017

1. 30 OctIndex Biography #47: Prize a book
2. 30 OctPortuguese Werewolf
3. 29 OctDaily History Picture: Cruiser Tank
4. 29 OctNapoleon and the Dorset Convent
5. 28 OctImmortal Meals #35: Bewitched Chinese Dancing Horses
6. 27 OctGhost Procession or New Invention?
7. 26 OctDaily History Picture: Family Tree
8. 25 OctDaily History Picture: Grotesque
9. 24 OctDaily History Picture: Irish Feast
10. 23 OctDaily History Picture: Sad Grave
11. 23 OctRoy Vickery, the Green Man
12. 22 OctDaily History Picture:
13. 22 OctMermaid Monday: Early Welsh Mermaid
14. 21 OctLeprosy Spell
15. 21 OctMoth: Shakespeare’s Most Mysterious Fairy
16. 19 OctDaily History Picture: Sinatra Selfie
17. 19 OctDeath by Carpet
18. 18 OctDaily History Picture: Pompeii Joke
19. 17 OctDaily History Picture: Marine Animals
20. 16 OctDaily History Picture: Hell!
21. 16 OctMonday Mermaid: Singing Florida Mermaids
22. 15 OctDaily History Picture: Fairy Faith
23. 15 OctLittle Fairy on the Prairie
24. 14 OctThe Monster of Ryde
25. 12 OctDaily History Picture: Fairy Perfume
26. 12 OctFlight with Wings in France 1858
27. 11 OctDaily History Picture: Facial Hair
28. 10 OctDaily History Picture: Head Cutting
29. 9 OctDaily History Picture: Familiar Spirits
30. 8 OctDaily History Picture: Drinking
31. 8 OctMermaid Monday: Mermaid in Berlin
32. 8 OctBest Ghost Story: Paris Station Ghost
33. 7 OctFlight Hoaxes at Norwich
34. 5 OctDaily History Picture: Benign Swastikas
35. 4 OctDaily History Picture: Dunkirk Evac
36. 4 OctThe Scholar Who Went with the Fairies
37. 3 OctDaily History Picture: Train Fairies
38. 2 OctDaily History Picture: Remembering Cats
39. 1 OctDaily History Picture: Death of Cornish
40. 1 OctMermaid Monday: Mermaids Off Islay

September 2017

1. 30 SepBeachcombed 88
2. 29 SepIndex Biography #46: Prize a book
3. 29 SepFireball in Perthshire?
4. 28 SepDaily History Picture: Young Clintons
5. 28 SepVictorian Urban Legends: The Spanish Mayor
6. 27 SepDaily History Picture: The Senate
7. 26 SepDaily History Picture: Decapitation
8. 25 SepDaily History Picture: Early Fairy Wings
9. 25 SepTeething and the Black Tramp
10. 24 SepDaily History Picture: Anti-Fascist Lecturer
11. 24 SepMermaid Monday: Ulster Mermaid 1814
12. 24 SepMongolian Ear Cutting
13. 23 SepIrish Ghost with Erection
14. 22 SepA Jack the Ripper Urban Legend
15. 21 SepDaily History Picture: Burning Money
16. 21 SepThe Hobgoblin Club
17. 20 SepDaily History Picture: Sword!
18. 19 SepDaily History Picture: British Balloon
19. 18 SepDaily History Picture: Woman in a Bottle
20. 17 SepDaily History Picture: Blake Brings Light
21. 17 SepMermaid Monday: Connomara Siren
22. 17 SepWar Heroes’ Bones for Manure in Scotland
23. 16 SepThe Origins of Jill the Ripper
24. 15 Sep1816 Flight Attempt in Paris
25. 14 SepDaily History Picture: Trans-Atlantic Spelling
26. 14 SepAnnie Kidnapped by the Fairies
27. 13 SepDaily History Picture: Monsters
28. 12 SepDaily History Picture: Irish Warband
29. 11 SepDaily History Picture: WW1 German Planes Over Pyramids
30. 11 SepThe Somercotes Ghost
31. 10 SepDaily History Picture: Oldest Toy?
32. 10 SepMermaid Monday: Creepy Mermaid Writes
33. 9 SepAnd If Your Sister Was About to Be Raped…?
34. 8 SepThomas Lucy and Shakespeare’s Lost Ballad
35. 8 SepSuper Swimmer Shoots Arrow Down
36. 7 SepDaily History Picture: Chocolate Riot
37. 7 SepSutherland Fire Ball
38. 6 SepDaily History Picture: 1920s US
39. 5 SepDaily History Picture: English Fighting in Ireland
40. 4 SepDaily History Picture: 50th Division in Normandy
41. 3 SepMermaid Monday: Mermaids at Mombasa
42. 2 SepWerewhales!
43. 1 SepDrunk Thesps, Faith’s Vomit and a Cake-Caked King

August 2017

1. 31 AugBeachcombed 87
2. 30 AugIndex Biography #45: Prize a book
3. 29 AugReview: A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities
4. 28 AugThe Nun, the Pickpocket and the French Prison
5. 27 AugMermaid Monday: Red Hair Off Mull
6. 26 AugTransvestite Hunt for Fake Ghost
7. 25 AugIn Search of the Droll-Teller
8. 25 AugThe End of German Bohemia, May 1945
9. 22 AugLetter from the Enemy
10. 21 AugThe Death of the Bogeyman
11. 20 AugNew England Mermaid
12. 20 AugReview: Les Compagnons
13. 19 AugWinged Ninth-Century Elves?!
14. 17 AugThe Man Who Wore His Wife
15. 13 AugMarried Life with a Mermaid: Six Useful Rules
16. 12 AugJury Hell in 1995
17. 11 AugThe Ludgvan Ghost Riot
18. 10 AugJoys of Supermarket Shopping in the Soviet Union
19. 10 AugLondon Fairy Roadrunner
20. 8 AugTrafficking in Human Fat!
21. 7 AugFrench Werewolves Sell Fat to Glass Factories?
22. 6 AugHerne the Hunter: the Twelve Basic Facts
23. 6 AugMyths of Twentieth-Century History
24. 5 AugEarliest Portrayal of Dwarfs: Heysham?
25. 1 AugMissing Urban Legends
26. 1 AugBeachcombed 86

July 2017

1. 30 JulIndex Biography #44: Prize a book
2. 30 JulGaston Ouvrieu and Blindfold Driving
3. 29 JulImmortal Meals #34: Picnic Under the Vicar’s Oak
4. 28 JulDaily History Picture: On the Way to Woodstock
5. 28 JulThe Digital Abyss
6. 27 JulKitchener Survives: The Insurance Policy
7. 26 JulDaily History Picture: Youngest Abraham Lincoln
8. 25 JulDaily History Picture: Early Underwater Photograph
9. 24 JulDaily History Picture: Smoke in the Ashes
10. 23 JulDaily History Picture: No White People
11. 22 JulDwarfknapped!
12. 22 JulBuried Standing Up
13. 21 JulThe Monster of Leavenworth, Kansas
14. 20 JulDaily History Picture: Fainted
15. 19 JulDaily History Picture: 1970s Party
16. 18 JulDaily History Picture: Eagle and Plane
17. 17 JulDaily History Picture: Destination Italy
18. 16 JulDaily History Picture: Atomium Under Construction
19. 16 JulThe Ghost, the Dynamite and the Fever
20. 16 JulDid You Hear the One About the Ring…
21. 15 JulReview: Primates
22. 13 JulDaily History Picture: Bird Shooting
23. 13 JulVictorian Urban Legends: Pawn Trick
24. 12 JulDaily History Picture: Don’t Put Gunpowder in Oven
25. 11 JulDaily History Picture: Boxing
26. 11 JulBuckinghamshire Fairies and Little Witches
27. 10 JulDaily History Picture: Bruce Lee Teaches
28. 9 JulDaily History Picture: Abduction by Templars
29. 7 JulJane Fool
30. 6 JulDaily History Picture: Abduction
31. 6 JulVictorian Urban Legends: Generosity Repaid
32. 5 JulDaily History Picture: Cane Flask
33. 5 JulStory: Meeting the Devil
34. 4 JulDaily History Picture: Cat in Castle
35. 3 JulDaily History Picture: Cesarean
36. 2 JulDaily History Picture: Indecency!
37. 2 JulOperation Resurrection: British Folklore
38. 1 JulGetting-to-Heaven Spell
39. 1 JulBeachcombed 85

June 2017

1. 30 JunIndex Biography #43
2. 29 JunDaily History Picture: Vietcong Attack
3. 29 JunKing’s Evil and a Two-Hundred-Year-Old Charm
4. 28 JunDaily History Picture: Liberation German Prison
5. 27 JunDaily History Picture: Sherman Picnic
6. 26 JunDaily History Picture: Elfen Picture
7. 25 JunDaily History Picture: Two Irelands
8. 25 JunSnowball Atrocities 7#: Ghostly Snowballs in Illinois
9. 24 JunThe Lost Canyon and the Impossible Buffalo
10. 23 JunCouncil Séance Over Haunted House
11. 22 JunDaily History Picture: Funny Face Stalin
12. 22 JunHistory Branching
13. 22 JunVictorian Urban Legend: The Mourning Trick
14. 21 JunDaily History Picture: In Search of Roanoke
15. 20 JunDaily History Picture: Disc Player
16. 20 JunMumps Spell
17. 19 JunDaily History Picture: Reagan Poses
18. 18 JunDaily History Picture: Radio and the River
19. 18 JunFirst Vehicular Suicide?
20. 17 JunBeggar for a Day
21. 17 JunThe Male Midwives Called Peter and the Empty Box Trick
22. 16 JunDog Glove Magic Disease Near Dublin (or Leicester)
23. 15 JunDaily History Picture: Monkey Escape
24. 15 JunTree-Felling Ghosts or Youth Vandalism?
25. 14 JunDaily History Picture: Dancing in New York
26. 13 JunDaily History Picture: Planet of Apes
27. 13 JunBirth Pangs Spell
28. 12 JunDaily History Picture: Richard III
29. 11 JunDaily History Picture: Panties Day
30. 10 JunImmortal Meals #33: Fairy Feast 1912
31. 10 JunMysterious Coffin Deposit
32. 9 JunPaul Stoller and Dongo
33. 8 JunDaily History Picture: Suffrage in Ohio
34. 7 JunDaily History Picture: Early Plane
35. 7 JunWW1 Rumours
36. 6 JunDaily History Picture: Young Elvis
37. 6 JunCrazies and Gentles: Two European Families
38. 4 JunDaily History Picture: Miss US
39. 4 JunReprieve?
40. 3 JunWoman to be Stoned and Blindfolded Priest
41. 2 JunA Sieve, a Fairy, a Midwife and a Mystery
42. 1 JunDaily History Picture: Fairy Wings
43. 1 JunKitchener’s Sword

May 2017

1. 31 MayBeachcombed 84
2. 31 MayIndex Biography #42
3. 29 MayChased into a Sicilian Hell
4. 28 MayDaily History Picture: Making Brens
5. 28 MayPeterborough Immortal, 180 Years
6. 27 MayThe Butter Love Spell
7. 27 MayBog Book in Benbecula?
8. 26 MayConstellation Plate and the Music of the Spheres
9. 24 MayDaily History Picture: Who Would Win?
10. 24 MayReview: Meredith Kercher, Amanda Knox and Murder in Perugia
11. 23 MayDaily History Picture: Welsh Peasants
12. 22 MayDaily History Picture: Weapon Factory
13. 22 MayFreedom in the Classroom: An Outdated Concept?
14. 21 MayDaily History Picture: Smoking Car
15. 21 MayLincoln’s Assassination Advertised?
16. 19 MayUrban Legend: the Magic Letter
17. 18 MayDaily History Picture: Medieval Dog
18. 17 MayDaily History Picture: Olympic Archery
19. 17 MayCreepy Familiars: Jarmara
20. 16 MayDaily History Picture: Tattoo WW2
21. 16 MayWilliam Blake and Bruno’s Fairies
22. 15 MayDaily History Picture: VE Day
23. 15 MayKilling Baby Stalin or Hitler?
24. 14 MayDaily History Picture: War on Satan
25. 14 MayKitchener Survives: Friend of a Friend
26. 14 MayLost Book on Magical Chameleons
27. 13 MayReview: Teach Us to Sit Still
28. 11 MayDaily History Picture: Stalker!
29. 11 MayNotre Dame to Montmartre by Bird Wings in 1840
30. 10 MayDaily History Picture: Queuing for Star Wars
31. 10 MayMole-Like Familiar
32. 9 MayDaily History Picture: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
33. 8 MayDaily History Picture: Steve Jobs and IBM
34. 8 MayWhite Man at Daratoleh
35. 7 MayDaily History Picture: Stonehenge from the Air
36. 6 MayGreek Hot Air Balloon?
37. 6 MayBodies in Elm, 1760?
38. 4 MayDaily History Picture: Stoning Stephen
39. 3 MayDaily History Picture: German Uboat at Hastings
40. 3 MayEvans Wentz and Sex
41. 2 MayDaily History Picture: Parade
42. 2 MayEvans Wentz and Money
43. 1 MayDaily History Picture: Austrian Suicides
44. 1 MayEvans Wentz’s Quest for Fairies

April 2017

1. 30 AprBeachcombed 83
2. 30 AprIndex Biography #41: Prize a book
3. 29 AprThe Coalville Lioness
4. 28 AprThe One Percent Victorian Style
5. 27 AprDaily History Picture: First Beer
6. 26 AprDaily History Picture: Nazi Summers
7. 25 AprDaily History Picture: Plane Down
8. 24 AprDaily History Picture: Handbagging Nazis
9. 24 AprVictorian Urban Legends: Music Boxes and Watch Sacks
10. 24 AprSampling the Supernatural
11. 24 AprThe 1883 Dundee Ghost Flap #3: Castoffs
12. 23 AprDaily History Picture: Burning Heretics
13. 22 AprThe 1883 Dundee Ghost Flap #2: the Hilltown Ghost
14. 21 AprThe 1883 Dundee Ghost Flap #1: Blackness Quarry Ghost
15. 20 AprDaily History Picture: Fishing Eels
16. 20 AprShakespeare and Fairy Wings
17. 19 AprDaily History Picture: Tattooing Flappers
18. 18 AprDaily History Picture: Bible Talk
19. 18 AprThe Supernatural on Ngram
20. 18 AprNun Immured in Britain?
21. 17 AprDaily History Picture: In Perfect Harmony
22. 17 AprSelf Help as Magic
23. 16 AprDaily History Picture: Bull Attack
24. 16 AprGulled at Hull
25. 15 AprGhost Funeral in Liverpool
26. 13 AprDaily History Picture: Martyrdom
27. 13 AprDumb Duels #8: Balloon Fights
28. 12 AprDaily History Picture: Tilting Ground
29. 11 AprDaily History Picture: Keeping Fit on the Titanic
30. 10 AprDaily History Picture: Tombstone for a Trout
31. 10 AprMarriage Letter Spells
32. 9 AprDaily History Picture: Stone Bulls
33. 9 AprBig Ben Superstitions
34. 8 AprNatural Ghosts
35. 8 AprThirteenth-Century Eurasia
36. 6 AprDaily History Picture: Irish Travels
37. 6 AprChasing Off Demons in Roman Slovenia
38. 5 AprDaily History Picture: The Calendar and British Summertime
39. 4 AprDaily History Picture: German Uboat on a British Beach
40. 4 AprVictorian Urban Legend: Pickpocket and Boa Constrictor
41. 4 AprEvans-Pritchard and the Witch
42. 3 AprDaily History Picture: Titanic Survivors
43. 2 AprDaily History Picture: Stalin, Truman and Churchill
44. 2 AprNew History Books: Schutt, Cannibalism
45. 1 AprThe Mason’s Worst Task

March 2017

1. 31 MarBeachcombed 82
2. 30 MarIndex Biography 40: Prize a book
3. 28 MarDaily History Picture: Young Stalin
4. 28 MarIn Search of the Anomaly Gap, 1700-1800
5. 27 MarDaily History Picture: Snogging Death
6. 27 MarNude Ghosts
7. 26 MarDaily History Picture: End of the World
8. 26 MarA Green Stranger or Angel or Fairy?
9. 26 MarNew History Books: Milton, Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
10. 25 MarReview: The Lost Story of the William & Mary
11. 25 MarNew History Books: Bosworth, Claretta: Mussolini’s Last Lover
12. 24 MarVictorian Urban Legends: Wellington’s Breeches
13. 23 MarDaily History Picture: George Tames the Dragon
14. 23 MarThe Copper Piece Spell
15. 23 MarWhen God Spoke in a Wind: the Battle of the Frigidus
16. 22 MarDaily History Picture: St Christopher as Dog Head
17. 22 MarReview: Death and the Dolce Vita
18. 21 MarDaily History Picture: Snipers Prepare
19. 21 MarGranddad Became a Seal
20. 20 MarDaily History Picture: St Francis Preaches in Egypt
21. 19 MarDaily History Picture: Anthony and Spiderman
22. 19 MarExploding Pipes
23. 19 MarNew History Books: McCarthy, Confederate Waterloo
24. 18 MarThe Eternal Mystic
25. 18 MarNew History Books: Rydell, The Book Thieves
26. 18 MarThe Train, the Turnip, the Knife and the Girl
27. 17 MarVulva Bread Spell
28. 16 MarDaily History Picture: First of the Few
29. 16 MarVictorian Urban Legend: The Egg Ring
30. 15 MarDaily History Picture: Sniper Training
31. 15 MarSnakes and Sleeping Humans
32. 14 MarDaily History Picture: Manuscript Blob
33. 14 MarDumb Duels #7: Circus Duel
34. 13 MarDaily History Picture: Star Wars Originals
35. 12 MarDaily History Picture: Soviet Robots
36. 12 MarThe Last Italian Emirate
37. 12 MarNew History Books: Frankel, High Noon
38. 11 MarShiatsu and Hallucinations
39. 11 MarNew History Books: Sensational Past
40. 10 MarEdith Turner Meets the Blob
41. 10 MarBloody Sunday and an Eyelid
42. 9 MarDaily History Picture: Artillery Forward
43. 9 MarAn Immortal in Venice
44. 8 MarDaily History Picture: Soviet Witches
45. 8 MarFairy Wind Rescue Spell
46. 7 MarDaily History Picture: Sound Finders
47. 6 MarDaily History Picture: Goodbye!
48. 6 MarAre Weasels Poisonous?
49. 5 MarDaily History Picture: Socrates Criminal
50. 5 MarNew History Books: Stejskal, Special Forces Berlin
51. 4 MarNew History Books: Nolan, The Allure of Battle
52. 3 MarEarliest Ordeal: Drowning
53. 3 MarThe Problem with Shamanism
54. 2 MarDaily History Picture: Rabbit Hell
55. 2 MarPhoenician Sun God in Eighteenth-Century Ireland?
56. 1 MarDaily History Picture: History is Fiction

February 2017

1. 28 FebBeachcombed 81
2. 27 FebDaily History Picture: Small Frisks Big
3. 27 FebIndex Biography #39: Prize a book
4. 26 FebDaily History Picture: Sleeping in the Underground
5. 26 FebThree Sheep Killers: 1904-1905
6. 26 FebNew History Books: The Cyclist
7. 25 FebImmortal Meals #32: Molecular Gastronomy, 1910?
8. 25 FebNew History Books: House of the Dead
9. 24 FebPrayer Book Marriage Spell
10. 23 FebDaily History Picture: Faceless Buddha
11. 23 FebWorking Class Professors in the Nineteenth Century
12. 22 FebDaily History Picture: Cat Deities and Boxes
13. 21 FebDaily History Picture: Selling Coats
14. 21 FebVictorian Urban Legends: Sewer Wealth
15. 20 FebDaily History Picture: Electric Fairy
16. 19 FebDaily History Picture: Training Wives
17. 19 FebThe Kentish Baboon
18. 19 FebBeating Up Ghosts
19. 19 FebNew History Books: Three Days
20. 18 FebThe Witch Bottle Spell
21. 18 FebNew History Books: Lost City
22. 18 FebRadio Before Radio
23. 17 FebIrish Fairies in the 1930s: Marrie Walsh
24. 16 FebVictorian Urban Legend: Familiar Robbers
25. 15 FebDaily History Picture: Maastricht Rebels
26. 14 FebDaily History Picture: Woodstock Responsible
27. 13 FebDaily History Picture: Naval Bombardment
28. 13 FebPoker Wallet
29. 12 FebDaily History Picture: Soviet Monstrosity
30. 12 FebDumb Duels #6: Spanish Duel
31. 12 FebNew History Books: Art of the Affair
32. 11 FebThe Invisible Bean Spell
33. 11 FebNew History Books: House of Spies
34. 9 FebDaily History Picture: Brazilian Slaves
35. 9 FebThe Raven Stone Spell
36. 9 FebBeach’s Book of Shadows
37. 8 FebDaily History Picture: Slave Market in Roman London
38. 8 FebRedhead the Lost Spaniard
39. 7 FebDaily History Picture: Scott’s Gramaphone
40. 7 FebWas Napoleon III an American?!
41. 6 FebDaily History Picture: Landing in Russell Islands
42. 5 FebDaily History Picture: Rolls Royce to Nepal
43. 5 FebHinge Moments: Leave!
44. 5 FebNew History Books: War Against War
45. 4 FebEarly Alien Encounter
46. 4 FebNew History Books: A House Full of Females
47. 3 FebThe Ring Dodge
48. 2 FebDaily History Picture: Catching an Airship
49. 2 FebKidnapped by the Pombero
50. 1 FebDaily History Picture: Six Pack Jesus

January 2017

1. 31 JanBeachcombed 80
2. 30 JanDaily History Picture: The Naturalist in His Study
3. 30 JanIndex Biography #38: Prize a book
4. 29 JanDaily History Picture: Returning Home from Woodstock
5. 29 JanA Very Old Carp
6. 28 JanHartlepool Wandering Jew
7. 28 JanNew History Books: God’s Generals
8. 27 JanWandering Jew c. 1700
9. 27 JanNew History Books: A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities
10. 27 JanCockney Wandering Jew
11. 26 JanDaily History Picture: Caving with Candles
12. 25 JanDaily History Picture: Queen Mother Enjoys Blitz
13. 25 JanGhost Larks
14. 24 JanDaily History Picture: Judge Study
15. 24 JanVictorian Urban Legend: Thief at the Theatre
16. 24 JanDaily History Picture: Tank Crew and Polar Bears
17. 23 JanMermaid Lies
18. 22 JanDaily History Picture: Fortean Scutcheon
19. 22 JanBreaking the Ampoule
20. 22 JanNew History Books: Agente
21. 21 JanRichard Cosway Meets the Wandering Jew
22. 21 JanNew History Books: Are Racists Crazy?
23. 20 JanHow to Turn around Political Punditry?
24. 19 Jan19C Rumours from Britain
25. 19 JanDaily History Picture: Goblin Scare!
26. 19 JanThe Servant Who Became a Bride
27. 18 JanDaily History Picture: Germans Captured in Crimea
28. 18 JanBlood, Ankles and Calculations: The Temple Mount at Jerusalem
29. 17 JanDaily History Picture: Antiquarians in Action
30. 16 JanDaily History Picture: Complaints
31. 16 JanDaily History Picture: Last Supper
32. 16 JanJapanese Dragon Hunt
33. 15 JanDaily History Picture: Town Mouse, Country Mouse
34. 15 JanDecades and Apostrophes: 1880s or 1880’s?
35. 15 JanNew History Books: Forrest and the Battle of Fort Pillow
36. 14 JanBest Irish Fairy Books: The Twentieth Century
37. 14 JanNew History Books: Morisi, The Italian Folgore Parachute Division
38. 13 JanBest Irish Fairy Books: the Nineteenth Century
39. 12 JanDaily History Picture: Run, Germans!
40. 12 JanDumb Duels #5: Golf Duel
41. 11 JanDaily History Picture: Nero as Rome Burns
42. 11 JanWandering Jew in Tunis
43. 10 JanDaily History Picture: Early Bowling
44. 10 JanInvisible Library: Sherlock Holmes’ Publications
45. 10 JanWandering Jew Plays Roulette
46. 9 JanDaily History Picture: Pretzel History
47. 8 JanDaily History Picture: Puck?
48. 8 JanFairy Vampires #1: Spence Speaks
49. 8 JanVictorian Criminal Slang
50. 8 JanNew History Books: Defying the IRA?
51. 7 JanSpoilt Royal Brats: Alexei Romanov
52. 7 JanNew History Books: Shadow Warriors
53. 5 JanDaily History Picture: Epiphany Pic
54. 5 JanEpiphany Gift: Superstitions of the Irish Peasantry
55. 5 JanFairy Armies: A Medical Explanation?
56. 4 JanDaily History Picture: Paleo Tines
57. 4 JanIn Defence of Fakelore
58. 3 JanDaily History Picture: Imagined Ghosts
59. 2 JanThe Crowd Swindle
60. 1 JanLondon Prostitutes, c. 1660
61. 1 JanBeachcombed 79

2016 638

December 2016

1. 30 DecIndex Biography #37: Prize a book
2. 29 DecDaily History Picture: Miranda Arrives in the Americas
3. 28 DecDaily History Picture: Shaven Romanovs
4. 27 DecDaily History Picture: Prehistoric Gummy Bear
5. 26 DecDaily History Picture: Civil Rights Protest
6. 26 DecGhost Changes Will
7. 25 DecDaily History Picture: A Historical Christmas to You All!
8. 24 DecVictorian Urban Legend: The Cheese Thief
9. 24 DecHappy Christmas!
10. 22 DecDaily History Picture: Polygamist Prison
11. 22 DecCelia Alleyne: A Fairy Woman?
12. 21 DecDaily History Picture: Miranda in Prison
13. 20 DecDaily History Picture: Mini Skirts For Ever
14. 20 DecCreepy Christmas Fairy Tale
15. 20 DecDigital Manuscript Losses
16. 19 DecDaily History Picture: Russian Gas Masks
17. 19 DecFairy Wings: Bat, Bird or Insect?
18. 18 DecDaily History Picture: Australia Celebrates
19. 18 DecNew History Books: Surge of Piety
20. 17 DecMaking Fairy Wings
21. 17 DecNew History Books: Rasputin
22. 16 DecIn Search of the Earliest Fairy Wings
23. 15 DecDaily History Picture: More Gifts for Hitler
24. 15 DecAnn Atkin and the Gnomes
25. 15 DecPriest as Cunning Man
26. 14 DecDaily History Picture: Presents for Adolf
27. 13 DecDaily History Picture: Illuminated Manuscript
28. 13 DecBurning Bluecoat Memoirs
29. 12 DecDaily History Picture: Penguin and Girl
30. 12 DecDumb Duels #4: Cigarette Duel
31. 11 DecDaily History Picture: Gordon Riots
32. 11 DecVictorian Urban Legend: the Expensive Manuscript
33. 11 DecNew History Books: Murderous History of Bible Translations
34. 10 DecLost Manuscripts: The Perils of Public and Private Transport
35. 10 DecNew History Books: Palatino
36. 9 DecA Missing Folklore Book: Marie Campbell
37. 8 DecDaily History Picture: Young Finnish Soldier and Dog
38. 8 DecImages of Deviant Burials
39. 7 DecDaily History Picture: Troops in Reich Wreckage
40. 7 DecQueen Victoria, Baby-Killer!
41. 6 DecDaily History Picture: Lauren and Harry
42. 6 DecMisruled by the Planets and Unfound by Bread
43. 5 DecDaily History Picture: Giant Centipede and GI
44. 5 DecBeware the Shutterkin!
45. 4 DecDaily History Picture: Pugilistic Parson
46. 4 DecReview: Hitler’s Forgotten Children
47. 4 DecNew History Books: Hitler’s Religion
48. 3 DecMurder Will Out: Unusual Bleeding Corpses
49. 3 DecNew History Books: Beethoven’s Skull
50. 2 DecSalamander Experiments in Rome
51. 1 DecChild Murder in a London Church?
52. 1 DecBeachcombed 78

November 2016

1. 30 NovDaily History Picture: German Cameraman
2. 29 NovIndex Biography #36: Prize a book
3. 29 NovDaily History Picture: Bombers Back
4. 28 NovImmortal Meals #31: Avendaño’s Anxious Banquet
5. 28 NovDaily History Picture: Giant Typewriter
6. 27 NovVictorian Urban Legend: Pickpocket Death
7. 27 NovNew History Books: Able Archer 83
8. 26 NovThe Battle of the Three Kings
9. 26 NovNew History Books: An Extraordinary Time
10. 25 NovThe Ghost in a Tree
11. 25 NovDaily History Picture: Unusual African Hairstyle
12. 24 NovThe Cuckold, the Painted Belly and the Lusty Merchant
13. 24 NovDaily History Picture: Tank Battle
14. 23 NovImage: The Tsarina and the Prostitutes
15. 23 NovDaily History Picture: Counterfactual Moonlanding
16. 22 NovExploding Witch Bottles
17. 22 NovDaily History Picture: Charlie Meets Albert
18. 21 NovReview: Postwar
19. 21 NovDaily History Picture: Spartacus Extras
20. 20 NovMilk Stealers: Paleolithic or Neolithic?
21. 20 NovNight Soldiers: the World of Alan Furst
22. 20 NovNew History Books: A Very English Scandal
23. 19 NovKiller Snake Wheels
24. 19 NovNew History Books: Knitskrieg
25. 18 NovSadistic Supernatural Creatures
26. 18 NovDaily History Picture: Finnish Plane
27. 17 NovDaily History Picture: Flapper Words
28. 16 NovNapoleon in Wales
29. 16 NovDaily History Picture: Downed Spitfire
30. 15 NovTojo’s Teeth: Remember Pearl Harbor
31. 15 NovDaily History Picture: Flying Tigers
32. 14 NovWitch Murder Terror at Soham (and Horseshoes)
33. 14 NovDaily History Picture: Gothic Beauty
34. 14 NovNapoleon III Survives Death
35. 13 NovNew History Books: Indestructible
36. 12 NovQueen Victoria, Dead Again
37. 12 NovDumb Duels #3: Cannon Duel
38. 12 NovNew History Books: The Leper Spy
39. 11 NovHerman Göring in Plymouth
40. 11 NovDaily History Picture: Haakon Returns
41. 10 NovDaily History Picture: Henry VIII
42. 9 NovDaily History Picture: One-Armed Pilot
43. 8 Nov19C London Fairies and Murder
44. 8 NovDaily History Picture: Ides of March
45. 7 NovAdvice on Good Government
46. 7 NovDaily History Picture: Brits Released
47. 6 NovThe Origins of Canard
48. 6 NovNew History Books: Les Parisiennes
49. 5 NovMarshal Ney Survives Death
50. 5 NovNew History Books: Devil Walking
51. 4 NovVictorian Urban Legend: the Wrong Pocket
52. 4 NovDaily History Picture: Berlin Glory?
53. 3 NovIn Search of Crimean Gothic
54. 3 NovWrecking Fairies
55. 3 NovDaily History Picture: First Robot Death
56. 2 NovGonzalo Guerrero: the Spanish Mayan
57. 2 NovDaily History Picture: Early USB

October 2016

1. 31 OctBeachcombed 77
2. 31 OctDaily History Picture: Injured Tommies
3. 30 OctIndex Biography #35: Prize a book
4. 30 OctNew History Books: The Spartan Regime
5. 30 OctImmortals: Memories of the Revolutionary War in the Late Nineteenth Century
6. 29 OctNew History Books: Undisclosed Files of the Police
7. 28 OctGod on a Medieval Fish
8. 27 OctDaily History Picture: VE Day in Colour
9. 27 OctSkinny White: the Cleverest Pickpocket in Europe
10. 26 OctDaily History Picture: Flags Won
11. 26 OctCrash Ghosts
12. 25 OctDaily History Picture: Artillery Victims
13. 25 OctTudor Sex Romps
14. 24 OctDaily History Picture: Lighting Up in Tripoli
15. 24 OctVictorian Urban Legends: Thames Crocodiles
16. 23 OctDaily History Picture: Soviet Pianist
17. 23 OctSnowball Atrocities #6: Snowballs over Glasgow
18. 23 OctNew History Books: The March Against England
19. 22 OctFat Boy Blusters
20. 22 OctReview: London Urban Legends
21. 20 OctDaily History Picture: Jungle Training
22. 20 OctA Canadian Fairy Hole (with Wigwam)
23. 19 OctDaily History Picture: War Factory
24. 19 OctSowing the Land with Salt
25. 18 OctDaily History Picture: Into Germany
26. 17 OctDaily History Picture: Against Vietnam
27. 17 OctWrong Place Castaways
28. 16 OctDaily History Picture: Weak 19C Women
29. 16 OctDumb Duels #2: Whip Duel
30. 16 OctNew History Books: Strangers in a New Land
31. 15 OctDeath by Plane
32. 15 OctNew History Books: Strange Lands
33. 14 OctJohn Trew and an Elizabethan Tank?
34. 13 OctDaily History Picture: Hitler and the Prince
35. 13 OctNapoleon and Hitler Coincidences
36. 12 OctDaily History Picture: Rage Against the Hijab
37. 12 OctSimon Bolivar Meets Ferdinand at Sport
38. 11 OctDaily History Picture: April Fool!
39. 11 OctSIM break the British
40. 10 OctDaily History Picture: Ypres Salient from the Air
41. 10 OctExecution by Boat
42. 9 OctDaily History Picture: Nazis Trampled
43. 9 OctVictorian Urban Legends: Surviving Death by Molten Iron
44. 9 OctNew History Books: Myth and Reality of German Warfare
45. 8 OctProstitutes’ Symbols
46. 8 OctReview: Erotic Book Plates
47. 8 OctNew History Books: The Perfect Horse
48. 7 OctThe Pope Who Loved Me: Sixtus V and Elizabeth
49. 6 OctDaily History Picture: Boggart Pool
50. 6 OctShip on Top of Iceberg!
51. 5 OctDaily History Picture: Best Headline Ever
52. 4 OctDaily History Picture: VE in the Fountain
53. 4 OctThe Witch, the Hand and the Demon Eckerken
54. 3 OctDaily History Picture: New Technologies
55. 3 OctThe Ghost that Sat on my Chest
56. 3 OctSinging for Health in Tudor England
57. 2 OctDaily History Picture: Rage Against the Patriarchy!
58. 2 OctNew History Books: Pickett’s Charge
59. 2 OctChinese in Roman London?

September 2016

1. 30 SepBeachcombed 76
2. 29 SepIndex Biography #34: Prize a book
3. 28 SepDaily History Picture: Civil War Skulls
4. 28 SepPook’s Hill and Kipling
5. 27 SepDaily History Picture: Skating in Early 1800s
6. 27 SepThe Unquiet Dead
7. 26 SepDaily History Picture: Knights of the Circumference
8. 26 SepA Goat, A Man and Two Prostitutes
9. 25 SepDaily History Picture: Siegfried Sassoon Autograph Copy
10. 25 SepAlabama Treasure Ghosts
11. 25 SepNew History Books: Seven Skeletons
12. 24 SepVictorian Urban Legends: Sewer Snakes
13. 24 SepNew History Books: London in Fragments
14. 23 SepSnowball Atrocities #5: Urban Legend Snowballs
15. 22 SepDaily History Picture: Siege of Tripoli
16. 22 SepThe Itza: the Last American Indian State
17. 21 SepDaily History Picture: British Shell Shock?
18. 21 SepSleeping with Dead Mom and Dad at Çatalhöyük
19. 20 SepDaily History Picture: Persian Monarch
20. 20 SepHow Fast Do Fairies Fly?
21. 19 SepDaily History Picture: Civil War Photograph
22. 19 SepFloating Islands (and the Loch Ness Monster)
23. 18 SepDaily History Picture: Saying Goodbye
24. 18 SepWrong Time Bread, Wrong Place Fairies
25. 18 SepNew History Books: Britain’s War
26. 17 SepTripadvisor Ghosts
27. 17 SepNew History Books: Shall We Wake the President?
28. 16 SepTime, Blood and Money in World War Two
29. 15 SepDaily History Picture: Kissing Hitler
30. 15 SepEarliest Optography?
31. 14 SepDaily History Picture: Petain and Hitler
32. 14 SepThe Future and Moles
33. 13 SepDaily History Picture: Baltic Fisherwomen
34. 13 SepItalians in the Wind
35. 12 SepDaily History Picture: British Anti-Semitism
36. 12 SepMaria Screams
37. 11 SepDaily History Picture: The Earth is Flat
38. 11 SepA Shaman’s Apprenticeship
39. 10 SepNew History Books: Where the Jews Aren’t
40. 10 SepMost Interesting Eighteenth-Century Life: Francisco de Miranda
41. 9 SepThe Bird Tree and Barnacle Geese
42. 9 SepNew History Books: Blood in the Water
43. 8 SepDaily History Picture: Early Modern Juke Box
44. 8 SepGaelic-Speaking Russians in 1914
45. 7 SepDaily History Picture: Druid Remains
46. 7 Sep70 Million Dead in One Second
47. 6 SepDaily History Picture: The Dobbie of Crosby Hall
48. 5 SepDaily History Picture: Klan Gathering
49. 5 SepProstitutes Past
50. 4 SepDaily History Picture: Fished Out of the Thames
51. 4 SepBottomless Pit in the Californian Desert
52. 3 SepDaily History Picture: Baltic Mermaid
53. 3 SepIntuition and Espionage
54. 3 SepZombie Contagion: Origins
55. 1 SepDaily History Picture: US Enters Great War
56. 1 SepBosom Lizards in Ireland

August 2016

1. 31 AugBeachcombed 75
2. 30 AugIndex Biography #33: Prize a book
3. 29 AugLying Periodicals?
4. 28 AugRemembering the Strips
5. 27 AugStrange Labrador Monster
6. 27 AugReview: The Graveyard of the Batavia
7. 25 AugA Royal Ghost: Harald the Something
8. 24 AugVictorian Urban Legends: In Search of the Sewer Crocodile in Hamburg
9. 23 AugSnowball Atrocities #4: Napoleon at Brienne
10. 22 AugPaleo Family Planning Today?
11. 21 AugStephen King and the Source of Bye Bye Man?
12. 19 AugMedieval Marvels: Italian Dragonets
13. 19 AugFirst Knocker Record from Wales
14. 17 AugPig in a Rock
15. 16 AugDon’t Walk Through That Wood
16. 15 AugImmortals: Napoleonic Warrior in Russia
17. 15 AugEarliest Manuscript Broomstick Witches
18. 13 AugA Nineteenth-Century Hydrogen Bomb?
19. 11 AugPost Mortem Lynching
20. 10 AugOakmen Fairy Fakes?
21. 9 AugBurning Library: Galen in Chinese Shorthand
22. 8 AugThe Spectres of Souther Fell 7: Embellishments
23. 7 AugThe Spectres of Souther Fell 6: Folklore
24. 6 AugThe Spectres of Souther Fell 5: Explanations
25. 5 AugThe Spectres of Souther Fell 4: Reconstruction
26. 4 AugThe Spectres of Souther Fell 3: James Clarke Speaks
27. 3 AugThe Spectres of Souther Fell 2: The 1747 Account (Surviving and Missing)
28. 2 AugThe Spectres of Souther Fell 1: The Sources
29. 1 AugCaithness Mermaid Mystery 6: There Were Mermaids!

July 2016

1. 31 JulBeachcombed 74
2. 30 JulIndex Biography #32: Prize a book
3. 29 JulCaithness Mermaid Mystery 5: the Mystery Solved?
4. 28 JulCaithness Mermaid Mystery 4: I Shot the Mermaid
5. 27 JulCaithness Mermaid Mystery 3: Dad Speaks
6. 27 JulPerhaps in My Father’s Time…
7. 25 JulSunderland Ghost Riot and Prophecy
8. 24 JulVictorian Urban Legend: The Gold Watch
9. 23 JulSnowball Atrocities #3: Geo-Political Snowballing
10. 22 JulVolcano or Leopard Skin?
11. 21 JulRabbit Death at Manassas
12. 20 JulA Sumerian Heliocentric Universe
13. 19 JulMedieval Marvels: Carving Liquid for Stone and Marble
14. 19 JulArab Embassy to Dark Age Scandinavia
15. 17 JulThe Coming Destruction of Minneapolis!
16. 16 JulFairies are Oh So… Neolithic
17. 15 JulIntelligence vs Wisdom in Public Debate
18. 15 JulWitch Wars in Devon!
19. 13 JulThe Drumming Well
20. 13 JulLiving on Other Planets
21. 11 JulFairies in Old Oaks?
22. 10 JulFoch and the Twenty Year Armistice: A Myth?
23. 9 JulTwin Countries
24. 8 JulThe Pirandello-Lenin Statue
25. 7 JulDid William the Conqueror Fall?
26. 6 JulBurning Libraries: Seleucus of Seleucia
27. 5 JulReview: Spirits of an Industrial Age
28. 4 JulYou Can’t Keep A Good Man Down
29. 3 JulCurious Royal Epithets
30. 2 JulTenth-Century Sasquatch?
31. 2 JulHistorical Children Scarers
32. 1 JulBeachcombed 73

June 2016

1. 30 JunIndex Biography #31: Prize a book
2. 29 JunDaily History Picture: Sea Monster Beached
3. 29 JunWeird Wars: Lost Maps, Lost Plans
4. 28 JunDaily History Picture: Samurai Poses
5. 27 JunWhat is a Headless Bear?
6. 26 JunDaily History Picture: Robert Nixon
7. 26 JunImmortal Meals #30: Chair Jumping at Court
8. 26 JunNew History Books: Bitter Taste of Victory
9. 25 JunNorfolk Shape Shifter
10. 25 JunNew History Books: For the Glory
11. 24 JunVictorian Urban Legend: The Red Hand and Seven Years in a Cave
12. 23 JunDaily History Picture: Big Brother
13. 23 JunSnowball Atrocities #2: Snowball Deaths
14. 22 JunDaily History Picture: Hitler and Mussolini in Russia
15. 22 JunReferendum Day
16. 21 JunDaily History Picture: Headless Saint
17. 21 JunKiller Rabbits
18. 20 JunDaily History Picture: Headless Bear
19. 20 JunThe Furthest Viking Raid
20. 19 JunDaily History Picture: Fire of London
21. 19 JunThe Kaiser and the Crowned Prince
22. 19 JunNew History Books: After Stalingrad
23. 19 JunMedieval Whaling Account from Ireland?
24. 18 JunThe Renwick Cockatrice
25. 18 JunNew History Books: Executing the Rosenbergs
26. 17 JunThe Baby and the Fairy Bush
27. 16 JunDaily History Picture: The Great War Dead
28. 16 JunTread on Her Toes: And Other Regency Seduction Tips
29. 15 JunDaily History Picture: Lottery Madness
30. 15 JunFrench Witch Burning, 1886
31. 14 JunDaily History Picture: The Dead Rise!
32. 14 JunDead Rats, Stoned Teachers and Sergeant Monday
33. 13 JunDaily History Picture: Calabrian Pipers
34. 13 JunHow Long Did Our Ancestors Live?
35. 12 JunDaily History Picture: Kangaroo vs Man
36. 12 JunNew History Books: Stalin’s Last Days
37. 11 JunWolfe and the Seargent
38. 11 JunNew History Books: Labor of Love
39. 10 JunVictorian Urban Legends: A Sexual Misunderstanding
40. 10 JunMore Men in the Moon
41. 9 JunDaily History Picture: Bird Museum
42. 8 JunDaily History Picture: Devil Warning for Kids
43. 8 JunThe Origins of Excalibur and Late Medieval Funerals
44. 7 JunDaily History Picture: Drunk Nun
45. 7 JunAll the Fun of the Fair
46. 7 JunThe Headless Bear and the Woman Who Became a Hoop
47. 6 JunDaily History Picture: Dragon!
48. 5 JunDaily History Picture: Medieval Carving
49. 5 JunVisiting Duat in Dreams
50. 5 JunNew History Books: Jutland!
51. 4 JunThe Victorian Ancestor of an Internet Scam
52. 3 JunSaint Francis Meets the Sultan
53. 2 JunDaily History Picture: Ghost Warning!
54. 2 JunThe Man Who Lived with the Fairies?
55. 1 JunDaily History Picture: Bird Catcher
56. 1 JunSilly Helmets from the Middle Ages
57. 1 JunBeachcombed 72

May 2016

1. 30 MayDaily History Picture: Scottish Child Worker
2. 30 MayIndex Biography #30: Prize a book
3. 29 MayDaily History Picture: HIV Strategy
4. 29 MayForgotten Kingdoms: Africa Town
5. 29 MayNew History Books: Vanishing Velazquez
6. 29 MayWatchers of the Sky: The Modern UFO Cult
7. 27 MayDaily History Picture: Philosophy…
8. 27 MayLost Sounds #2: London Street Cries, c. 1700
9. 27 MayRegency Love Signs
10. 27 MayNew History Books: Saladin
11. 26 MayDaily History Picture: Blitz Santa
12. 26 MayThe Earliest Broomstick Witch?
13. 25 MayDaily History Picture: English Knight
14. 25 MayIrish Horse Whispering in Co. Cork
15. 24 MayDaily History Picture: Commonwealth Sword
16. 24 MayImmortal Meals #29: Bourbon at Surrender
17. 23 MayDaily History Picture: Salvador Dali and His Pets
18. 23 MayDaily History Picture: Roman Emperors Die
19. 23 MaySnowball Atrocities #1: Snowball Bomb
20. 22 MaySleeping with the Devil
21. 22 MayDaily History Picture: Raid!
22. 21 MayNew History Books: The Mathews Men
23. 21 MayReview: The Bye Bye Man
24. 20 MayNew History Books: Kosher USA
25. 20 MayIberian Hedgehog Graves
26. 19 MayDaily History Picture: Killing Knight?
27. 19 MayIrish Phoenix (1897)?
28. 18 MayDaily History Picture: The Big Three
29. 18 MayVivid African Execution
30. 17 MayDaily History Picture: Saintly Man
31. 17 MayNeither Ghosts, Nor Bogeys, Nor Heat, Nor Gloom: Postoffice Workers and the Paranormal
32. 16 MayDaily History Picture: More Russian Snipers in Skirts
33. 16 MayWhat Language is Closest to English?
34. 15 MayDaily History Picture: Wanted, Hitler!
35. 15 MayEarly Modern Sentries and the Supernatural
36. 15 MaySurrender, Secret Weapons and the Nazis
37. 14 MayNew History Books: Full Moon Over Noah’s Ark
38. 13 MayBizarre Regency Toasts
39. 13 MayNew History Books: America’s War for the Greater Middle East
40. 13 MayUrban Legends: Saved by Thieves
41. 12 MayDaily History Picture: Castro Meets Hemingway
42. 11 MayDaily History Picture: Despoiling
43. 11 MayPlague Oak at Wrexham (and Fairies)
44. 10 MayDaily History Picture: Seeing Jerusalem
45. 10 MayLee’s Luck
46. 10 MayBurning Libraries: Lost Yorkshire Folk Collection
47. 9 MayDaily History Picture: Nazi Fashion
48. 8 MayDaily History Picture: Unbalanced Knight
49. 8 MayReview: Lost Book of Moses
50. 7 MayNew History Books: The Lost White Tribe
51. 7 MayGrow a Tree Trick and Poltergeist Wood Chips
52. 7 MayNew History Books: Lost Book of Moses
53. 6 MaySilly Crests
54. 5 MayPainting on Water
55. 4 MayProblems with the Paleo Diet
56. 3 MayTransvestite Vicar Ghost in Interwar England
57. 2 MayDaily History Picture: Wild Man
58. 2 MayMysterious Balaclavas on South Georgia
59. 1 MayReview: Physical Evidence, A Feeling for Magic

April 2016

1. 30 AprBeachcombed 71
2. 30 AprNew History Books: Revolutionary Iran
3. 29 AprIndex Biography #29: Prize a book
4. 28 AprDaily History Picture: Spines
5. 28 AprThe Stalmine Fairy Tree: A Lancashire Mystery
6. 27 AprDaily History Picture: Making the Germans Sign
7. 27 AprWoman-Hating Bedfordshire Wild Man
8. 26 AprDaily History Picture: 18Cent Knitting Needle
9. 26 AprLost Sounds #1: Dawn Chorus of Clogs in the Nineteenth Century
10. 25 AprDaily History Picture: Russian Sniper Club
11. 25 AprMysterious American Indian Ceremony
12. 24 AprDaily History Picture: Bonnie and Boyfriend
13. 24 AprTony, Where Are Your Footnotes?!
14. 24 AprNew History Books: Menagarie
15. 23 AprHashish and Assassination
16. 23 AprNew History Books: Vodka Politics
17. 22 AprBurning Library: Intepretation of the Pythagorean Sayings
18. 21 AprDaily History Picture: Raising the Dead
19. 21 AprBritain’s Lost Bogies: Holden Rag
20. 20 AprDaily History Picture: Cher and the Apes
21. 20 AprThe Last African Slaves to Be Brought to America: Eyewitness Accounts
22. 19 AprDaily History Picture: Aretha Franklin Magnificent
23. 19 AprIs St Francis’ Horn Egyptian?
24. 18 AprDaily History Picture: Medical Operations Medieval Style
25. 18 AprThe Republic of the Seven Islands
26. 17 AprDaily History Picture: Early Fake Guns
27. 17 AprA Mediumistic Maid
28. 17 AprNew History Books: Ireland’s Exiled Children
29. 16 AprWeird Chinese Painters
30. 16 AprNew History Books: Cartographic Japan
31. 16 AprThe Hare that Got Away
32. 14 AprDaily History Picture: Blake Does Fairies
33. 14 AprBuried Six Times in Twelve Years
34. 13 AprDaily History Picture: Sally Rand and a Heart
35. 13 AprHare Horror in Furness! Return of the Supernatural Bunnies
36. 12 AprDaily History Picture: Rabbit vs Snail
37. 12 AprThe Buddha in Sicily?
38. 11 AprDaily History Picture: Woodstock Free Market
39. 11 AprSt Thomas and the Meretrix
40. 10 AprDaily History Picture: Neighing Horse
41. 10 AprThe Lie of the Second Sons
42. 10 AprNew History Books: Interviews with History and Power
43. 9 AprHuge Erratic Boulders: the Westmorland Thunderstones
44. 9 AprNew History Books: Routledge History Witchcraft
45. 8 AprReview: Nanny Says
46. 7 AprDaily History Picture: Vinyl Listening Booths
47. 7 AprPerugian Witch, 1908
48. 6 AprDaily History Picture: Deposition
49. 6 AprThe Real Romeo and Juliet
50. 5 AprDaily History Picture: Hare Killing
51. 5 AprThe Spaw Monster
52. 4 AprDaily History Picture: Japanese World Map
53. 4 AprWW2 Myths: Forgetting General Winter
54. 3 AprDaily History Picture: Mug Shots
55. 3 AprThe Ghost of Coalville: Women in the Choir
56. 2 AprReview: A Word Geography of England
57. 1 AprBoggart Stones and Boggart Smells

March 2016

1. 31 MarBeachcombed 70
2. 30 MarDaily History Picture: Russian Soldier Plays Piano
3. 30 MarIndex Biography #28: Prize a book
4. 29 MarDaily History Picture: Running Train
5. 29 MarA Milk-Drinking British Boa
6. 28 MarDaily History Picture: Child with Bodyguard
7. 28 MarImmortal Meals #28: Freedom and Chicken
8. 27 MarDaily History Picture: Roman Owl
9. 27 MarRichard and Saladin’s Swords
10. 27 MarNew History Books: Washington’s Immortals
11. 26 MarWitch Bone Breaking?
12. 26 MarNew History Books: Confederate Sharpshooter
13. 25 MarCreepy Scythian Graves
14. 24 MarDaily History Picture: Damn Rabbits Again…
15. 24 MarImage: Hitler Bows to Hindenburg
16. 23 MarDaily History Picture: Roller Skates
17. 23 MarHeadless Mine Ghost
18. 22 MarDaily History Picture: Robin Williams in Skirt
19. 22 MarFor the Birds? Francis and the Feathered Tribe
20. 21 MarDaily History Picture: Ho Chi Minh Trail
21. 21 MarPraying a Child to Death
22. 20 MarDaily History Picture: Knights!
23. 20 MarReal Magic Ring?
24. 20 MarNew History Books: Hitler’s Forgotten Children
25. 19 MarGreeks in Buddhist India?
26. 19 MarNew History Books: Panorama of the Thames
27. 18 MarPenis Nests
28. 17 MarReview Theory of Irony: How Jesus Led to Moon Golf
29. 17 MarDaily History Picture: Hemingway and Dahl
30. 16 MarDaily History Picture: Rick in the Carpark
31. 16 MarSister Trouble: The Sacrifice
32. 15 MarDaily History Picture: Soviet Troops in Berlin
33. 15 MarImmortal Meals #27: The Honey Baby
34. 14 MarDaily History Picture: Rasputin in Colour
35. 14 MarRomans in Nineteenth Century Wales?!
36. 14 MarTjoelicks: Phantom Child Sacrifices in the East Indies
37. 13 MarPythagoras and His Troubled Biography
38. 13 MarNew History Books: Japan’s WWII Legacy
39. 12 MarThe Last Judicial Burning
40. 12 MarNew History Books: For the Love of Wine
41. 11 MarThe Moro Séance #3: The Explanation
42. 10 MarDaily History Picture: North Vietnamese Into Battle
43. 10 MarThe Moro Séance #2: The Protagonists
44. 9 MarDaily History Picture: Mary Poppins
45. 9 MarThe Moro Séance #1: The Background
46. 9 MarThe Oracle: A Victorian Computer?
47. 8 MarDaily History Picture: Swear Words
48. 7 MarDaily History Picture: Human Plague
49. 7 MarAn Urban Legend: The Vanishing Car
50. 6 MarDaily History Picture: German Trench
51. 6 MarErgot Madness in Historians
52. 6 MarNew History Books: Wings of Empire
53. 5 MarLate Somerset Witch Caught as Rabbit
54. 5 MarNew History Books: Invincible Beast
55. 4 MarDreaming Death: Early Registration of Death
56. 3 MarDaily History Picture: Communist Dies
57. 3 MarThe Earliest Cargo Cult?
58. 2 MarDaily History Picture: Czech Refugees
59. 2 MarDead Hands, Live Wens: Latest Record?
60. 1 MarDaily History Picture: Boot Black
61. 1 MarKiller Cameras

February 2016

1. 29 FebBeachcombed 69
2. 28 FebDaily History Picture: Armless Queen
3. 28 FebIndex Biography #27: Prize a book
4. 27 FebBritish Iron Age Peyote
5. 27 FebNew History Books: 1956: The World in Revolt
6. 26 FebThoughts on Poltergeists from Harry Price
7. 25 FebDaily History Picture: Teddy Women in London
8. 25 FebPhoto: The Four (and Ciano) at Munich
9. 24 FebDaily History Picture: German Women Prisoners
10. 24 FebTom Dockin, Iron Toothed Child Killer
11. 23 FebDaily History Picture: Youngish Lenin
12. 23 FebUrban Legend: the Clock Trick
13. 22 FebDaily History Picture: Pict’s Pictures
14. 22 FebWrong Place Stories
15. 21 FebDaily History Picture: Gods Walk the Earth
16. 21 FebWitches and Paganists: In Search of a Term
17. 21 FebNew History Books: One Child
18. 20 FebBogeys, Snot and Monsters
19. 20 FebNew History Books: Black Thursday
20. 19 FebTony Judt’s Lost Classic
21. 18 FebDaily History Picture: Howard’s Kills
22. 18 FebPoetic Justice and Four British Traitors
23. 17 FebDaily History Picture: Washington Carved
24. 17 FebWhere is the Dorset Ooser?
25. 16 FebDaily History Picture: Transvestite German Soldiers
26. 16 FebReview: Return to Magonia
27. 15 FebDaily History Picture: Cree Chieftain
28. 15 FebThe Last Crusade, 1996-1999
29. 14 FebDaily History Picture: Eiffel Tower Possibilities
30. 14 FebVictorian Cannabis Use
31. 14 FebNew History Books: Queen of Spies
32. 13 FebDying from Fright: Women and the Weak Minded?
33. 13 FebNew History Books: Mussolini’s Army in the French Riviera
34. 12 FebLast King Killing
35. 11 FebDaily History Picture: East German Sentries
36. 10 FebDaily History Picture: End of Prohibition
37. 10 FebBogey Lanterns
38. 9 FebDaily History Picture: Out Driving
39. 9 FebThe Realm of the Assassins
40. 8 FebDaily History Picture: Indian Mother and Child
41. 8 FebWorst Career: the Knocker Up
42. 7 FebDaily History Picture: BEF Greeted
43. 7 FebThe Gandhi-Hitler Letters
44. 7 FebNew History Books: When Hitler Took Cocaine
45. 6 FebDeath by Boggart (or Meningitis)?
46. 6 FebNew History Books: The Vanishing Man
47. 5 FebThe Matrimony Business
48. 4 FebDaily History Picture: Beer is Back!
49. 4 FebRed Fairies #4: Added in Translation?
50. 3 FebDaily History Picture: Nineteenth-Century Teacher
51. 3 FebRed Fairies #3: Do NOT Use the Chimney
52. 2 FebDaily History Picture: Beach Scene
53. 2 FebRed Fairies #2: A People Apart?
54. 1 FebDaily History Picture: Three Blackfoot Braves
55. 1 FebRed Fairies #1: The Fairy Bandits?

January 2016

1. 31 JanBeachcombed 68
2. 31 JanNew History Books: Slav Outposts
3. 30 JanIndex Biography #26: Prize a book
4. 30 JanRobin and the Sermon
5. 30 JanNew History Books: Making David into Goliath
6. 28 JanDaily History Picture: Ron and Nancy and Decapitated Chinese Warrior
7. 28 JanAncient Saunas with Cannabis
8. 28 JanNew History Books: Truce
9. 27 JanDaily History Picture: Original Peanuts Cast
10. 27 JanThe Bogle and the Gamekeeper
11. 26 JanDaily History Picture: Richard III Pays Parking Bill
12. 26 JanHistory by Kilowat: Humanity Glimpsed from Space
13. 25 JanDaily History Picture: Sad Handshake
14. 25 JanThe Mystery Footstep
15. 24 JanDaily History Picture: Jonah in a Gargoyle
16. 24 JanLetters from a Witch’s Clients
17. 24 JanNew History Books: Fall of the Double Eagle
18. 23 JanAn Outstanding Italian Ghost Story
19. 23 JanNew History Books: Of Beards and Men
20. 22 JanFilm, History and Memory
21. 21 JanDaily History Picture: Kennedy Hates Nixon
22. 21 JanGhost Hangs Four in New Orleans
23. 20 JanDaily History Picture: Modern Times
24. 20 JanChurn Milk Peg
25. 19 JanDaily History Picture: Execution
26. 19 JanBosom Serpents and False Operations
27. 18 JanDaily History Picture: Early Wheelie
28. 18 JanWhy Did Germany Screw Up in 1940?
29. 17 JanDaily History Picture: Early Clinton
30. 17 JanVictorian Urban Legends: Coffin Games
31. 17 JanNew History Books: Hidden Britain
32. 16 JanA Ghost Rabbit as Big as a Sheep
33. 16 JanNew History Books: Kursk
34. 15 JanThe Last English Hobbits?
35. 14 JanDaily History Picture: Gas Mask Fun
36. 14 JanMy Name Writ on Glass
37. 13 JanDaily History Picture: Challenger in Flames
38. 13 JanPhantom Rabbit Monster: Rochdale, Lancashire
39. 12 JanDaily History Picture: Camouflage Fun
40. 12 JanDid the Russians Off Archduke Ferdinand?!
41. 11 JanDaily History Picture: Kobe Bombed
42. 11 JanCellphones and the Paranormal
43. 10 JanDaily History Picture: Bison Pyramid
44. 10 JanLovers Leaping, Shooting and Drowning
45. 10 JanNew History Books: The Earliest Christian Meeting Places
46. 9 JanThe Noontide Hag in Luton!
47. 9 JanNew History Books: Or Gang, A Racial History
48. 8 JanSelf Made Victorians?
49. 7 JanDaily History Picture: Berlusconi and Ghadaffi
50. 7 JanThe Naked Dancing Thief: Con or Urban Legend?
51. 6 JanDaily History Picture: Massacre
52. 6 JanThe Bank Note Club
53. 5 JanDaily History Picture: Bardossy’s Death
54. 5 JanRepublican Fields
55. 5 JanEpiphany Gift 6: Enys Tregarthen and the Piskeys
56. 4 JanDaily History Picture: Boom!
57. 4 JanFrederick II: Medieval Multiculturalism?
58. 3 JanDaily History Picture: Against Mini Skirts
59. 3 JanA Linguistic Family Tree of North-West European Fairies
60. 2 JanNew History Books: Evasion and Escape Devices
61. 2 JanThe Boom of the Bitterbump
62. 2 JanNew History Books: King of Kings
63. 1 JanThe World in 2030: Predictions
64. 1 JanBeachcombed 67