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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.
4 months ago

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...
6 months ago

The woman who said Jesus would return - to Bedford

BBC
A 64-year-old woman called Joanna Southcott announced she was pregnant with the Messiah. She died in December 1814, months after making this bold claim.
58 months ago

“E.P. Thompson’s Socialist Humanism” in Against the Current

Monthly Review
"Thompson's writings are indispensable weapons for a new generation of activists struggling to reinvent radicalism." —Sheila Rowbotham.
88 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...
92 months ago

Trish Morrissey: Interview of the Month, May 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent

Artlyst
Irish artist Trish Morrissey combines archival research and her biography to develop and play real and fictional characters,...
5 months ago

Karl Marx on Film

4Columns
Capital and carbuncles: a series explores the revolutionary thinker. News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx–Eisenstein–Capital.
76 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...
113 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.
53 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.
4 months ago