Racism – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

March tweets

More Czechs, Spike Jones, Brexit, burning Guy, Child Ballads, copyright, Robin Hood’s two pricks, and so on.

Tatraplan by Blahoslaw Rozboril & Josef Daňka at the Pražák Palace bit of the Moravian Gallery in Brno.

The Singing Organ Grinder’s tweet archive for February 2018

Another abundance of redundance. Featuring Russian, German and Italian puppetry, organ-grinding, and other nonsense.

A Dutch Polichinel on a buffalo in 1856 (2018-02-01 18:10).

Sinn Fein-IRA joke

You heard it here first – unless you’re familiar with the early 20th century Spanish gypsy repertoire.

A brief history of zoological shame

Featuring a Spanish view of the Saxons.

More Nordic body culture in Barcelona

There’s nothing your neighbourhood phenotype dream team can’t fix.

The bullfighting Chinaman and his magnificent midget show

Yet more Spanish culture for Brussels to ban.

Is the anglocabrón longing for sun, sangria and sex a new phenomenon?

Blasco Ibáñez says that actually we have always thought “at all hours of the Mediterranean rim.”

The Lord Mayor of London’s giantess

Both white and black men prohibited from ambulant advertising.

Catalan Easter Jew-killing ceremony update

I wondered here whether pew-beating as a means of reliving medieval pogroms was a nineteenth century invented tradition. It was a rather naive question, and confirmation that the practice was already popular in Barcelona in 1848 is to be found in this Libro Verde entry for today, Holy Wednesday.