Christmas History Snippets Gold_aureus coin_of_Augustus (c) Joseph H Durkee (1899) Turkey Titbits: During Christmas 1945, many British newspapers carried references to the unusual treasure trove discovered by a Murcian cook, during [...]
In Remembrance of Horace Acomb Great Southern Spain Railway Company personnel at Lorca Station (photo by Gustavo Gillman) It is a sobering thought to reflect upon during this month of Remembrance, [...]
Murcian Halloween Horrors With Halloween arriving at the end of the month, (similar to the Spanish El Dia de las Muertos, which launches a three-day festival/celebration throughout much of the Hispanic [...]
Murcian Matadors: Women of the Bullring. Ernest Hemingway in Spain, 1927 (with a bull) The great American novelist, Ernest Hemingway, had a considerable passion for Spanish bullfighting, which he saw as [...]
Ice Ice Baby In February 1935, a tiny baby girl was found abandoned amongst a load of fresh fish, in a fish ice-box, at an unnamed location (probably in the environs [...]
Spain and the Beautiful Game On 6th August 1927, the Aberdeen Press and Journal published an article on the rise of ‘futbol’ in Spain. The piece was written by an unnamed [...]
