Early Modern Whale

I am not overjoyed to discover that the latest version of Firefox and Blogger do not seem to get on: I have swapped templates, but none o...

‘Nor uglier follow the Night-Hag, when call'd In secret, riding through the Air she comes Lur'd ...

Seventeenth century Lancashire seems to have been regarded as a reliable source of supernatural f...

So, there they all were, a 'large party' returning to Paris after a day out cycling, 'all very hilarious' (I think we can as...

Back with the Illustrated Police News (Dec 11th, 1897) and a rather less grim duel in prospect between 'the notorious mistress of Senor...

Back with duelling women, and the Illustrated Police News for Saturday 15th March, 1873. This reports from the Figaro for the Thursday befor...

I was reminded of John Bell’s ghastly little pamph...

I got round to looking at the original source for t...

Back with The Illustrated Police News, August 14th, 1869, and one of their more incredible yarns, a tale of two nuns from a convent near Gen...

I have been away from this blog for a while because my spare time has been spent preparing for whatever contribution I could make to a '...

Joseph Hall, 1574-1656, is one of those figures who really might feature more tha...

Two ‘Horatian Odes’ after Marvell, using his famous, but surprisingly little used metre. Both poems are elegiac, about General Sherman after...