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Joanna Southcott
Perspective Magazine
The story of Joanna Southcott, the eighteenth-century Devon prophetess, might look like a risible fraud. It involves conveniently illegible prophecies, quack...
7 months ago
Panacea Society: Centenary marks arrival of 'prophet's cradle'
BBC
In 1924 it acquired a cradle that had belonged to Joanna Southcott, who the society considered to be a prophet and in 1814 claimed she was pregnant.
5 months ago
The town that predicted the world’s end
BBC
The market town of Bedford, England was once home to a cult of women who thought they could avert Armageddon. Their locked box of prophecies...
93 months ago
Karl Marx on Film
4Columns
A series explores the revolutionary thinker. News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx–Eisenstein–Capital. Image courtesy Alexander Kluge.
77 months ago
The woman who said Jesus would return - to Bedford
BBC
Two centuries ago, a 64-year-old woman called Joanna Southcott announced she was pregnant with the Messiah. She died in December 1814,...
59 months ago
Have you been to the Garden of Eden? It's in Bedford
The Guardian
The strange tale of how paradise came to be located in a Victorian semi not far from the town centre.
54 months ago
Spotlight: Irish Artist Trish Morrissey’s Self-Portraits Are Steeped in Intimacy and Humor
Artnet News
Newly represented by Close Gallery, works by Trish Morrisey in new solo show ongoing self-portraits that mine the personal and collective.
5 months ago
10 Failed Doomsday Predictions
Britannica
They've predicted the destruction of the world through floods, fires, and comets—luckily for us, none of it has come to pass...
114 months ago
JFC Harrison obituary
The Guardian
John Harrison, who has died aged 96, was a pioneer of “history from below” whose work (published under the name JFC Harrison) transformed how popular political...
81 months ago
The world's most unlikely cult leader: Edwardian housewife Mabel Barltrop
Daily Mail
This eccentric, oh-so-English cult really did exist, with around 75000 adherents around the world. For the Panacea Society, 'doing things...
65 months ago