 King... magician... general... slave |  Final straggler |  In the cave of the witches |
|---|---|---|
 The king of hard currency |  Murder in the Potala |  The demonisation of Empress Wu |
 Blonde cargoes |  The worst job there has ever been |  The Old Man of the Lake |
 The Breton Bluebeard |  Lost in the taiga |  A visit to the underworld |
 The Monster of Glamis |  The fairy coffins of Arthur's Seat |  Fishmonger's Hall |
 Record prison sentences |  Gavrilo Princip's Sandwich |  The bodies in the bogs |
 Walking to Utopia |  Aqua Tofana |  Shakushain's revolt |
 Rescuing Napoleon by submarine |  America's first highjacking |  Dreamtime voyagers |
 Hitler and hot jazz |  The blood eagle |  Closing the pigeon gap |
 On heroic self-sacrifice |  Khrushchev in water wings |  Above the senior wrangler |
 Friedrich Engels' Irish muse |  Envoi |  The Swedish Meteor |
 Amazons |  Run out of town on an ass |  The Villisca Axe Murders |
 The Cheapside Hoard |  The Blues versus the Greens |  How voodoo got its bad name |
 The last of the Cornish packmen |  One man against tyranny |  The Fayum mummy portraits |
 The mysterious Mr ZedZed |  An abandoned lifeboat at world's end |  Tamam shud |
 Soul-stealers and sorcerers |  Queen Victoria's £5 |  Islam's medieval underworld |
A Blast From the Past
... is an irregular blog that features new essays on a ridiculously wide array of topics. Offbeat, revealing, and always carefully grounded in proper research.