From 1859 to 1880, Joshua Abraham Norton thought he was Emperor of the United States. Ann Atkin keeps 7,500 garden gnomes in her backyard. Brooklyn artist Peter

An entertaining guide to the most eccentric characters from British history

As the nineteenth century turned, the small-town America in which Huck Finn fished was yielding to an age of industry; of a new form of energy, electricity; of

English Eccentrics and Eccentricities is a humorous work by John Timbs. An entertaining and light reading that covers different personalities, in a quirky fashi

Throughout the long history of England there have been eccentrics from all walks of life but none more so than those attached to the church. The aristocrat and