Lambeth Apocalypse News Today

As is typical of our time, over the past few months, many newscasters have used the words apocalypse or apocalyptic to evoke the negative implications of events as diverse as the threat of Grexit, music streaming wars, an asteroid threat, the American housing market, the migrant cri

Guarding the apocalypse: inside the fortress of the new Lambeth Palace Library Oliver Wainwright © Provided by The Guardian One of the Library’s treasures, now in a suitably armoured home. Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guardian A dangerous-looking porcupine scuttles across the bottom of a page of a medieval manuscript, amid scenes of fire-breathing dragons, bodies bubbling in cauldrons, and boats deluged by biblical floods. Known as the Lambeth Apocalypse , this 13th-century il...