A cradle which a society believes was designed for the offspring of a prophet is on display.
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To 21st-century eyes, the story of Joanna Southcott, the eighteenth-century Devon prophetess, might look like a risible fraud.
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Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) was born in Devon to a small farming family. She went into service at a gentleman's house in Exeter and worked...
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Two centuries ago, a 64-year-old woman called Joanna Southcott announced she was pregnant with the Messiah. She died in December 1814,...
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"Thompson's writings are indispensable weapons for a new generation of activists struggling to reinvent radicalism." —Sheila Rowbotham.
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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...
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Irish artist Trish Morrissey combines archival research and her biography to develop and play real and fictional characters,...
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Capital and carbuncles: a series explores the revolutionary thinker. News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx–Eisenstein–Capital.
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Religious leaders, scientists, and even a hen (or so it seemed) have been making predictions for the end of the world almost as long as the world has been...
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The strange tale of how paradise came to be located in a Victorian semi not far from the town centre.
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