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The 2012 Apocalypse, or why the world won’t end this week
If you believe The Daily Mail, we’re all convinced that the world is going to end on 21st December 2012. Apparently people are stockpiling food and weapons, flocking to remote villages and heading for...
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The Ottomans and the Apocalypse
‘Turkish village becomes latest doomsday hotspot‘, ran one headline last week. This is the news that 60,000 people are descending on a small Turkish village, where it is thought the Virgin Mary...
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What’s the point of the apocalypse?
Imagining the end of the world is one of humanity’s most perverse pleasures. For decades, cinema-goers have been treated to apocalypse by rogue planet, asteroid, earth’s core overheating, earth’s core...
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Atomic Anxieties: The Cold War and the Apocalypse
A package of sprats, vodka, buckwheat, matches, candles, a string and a piece of soap – perhaps not the perfect present for Christmas, but in the Siberian city of Tomsk the $29 parcels are proving a...
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A Sign of the Times: Millerism in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Last summer my wife and I were driving through the Border South en route to Memphis. On the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky, we tuned into an evangelical Christian radio station, where the presenters...
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Apocalypse Now, by Tom Holland
Introduction, by Caroline Pennock It’s been a pretty hectic week, all in all. What with the launch of the History Matters blog and the not-Maya-apocalypse, I’ve been kept rather busy explaining to...
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