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Posted on Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 by Kalyn Corrigan Fascination with the occult has long been a fixation in the minds of many across the globe. Whether it be a perverse manifestation of the panic which sets in among all classes when the balance begins to shift toward greater individual freedom, an overdue opportunity to express guilt and sin under the guise of accusations against innocent victims, or just wanting to check out your astrology horoscope for the week, the idea of witches and witchcraft and the power of the moon always manages to make a comeback in the psyche of the general publ...

The Gordon Riots "June 1780 [witnessed] the worst mob riots of the eighteenth century. Lord George Gordon was a born incendiary of extreme, almost insane, views. … He established an 'association', in the style of the time, and the Protestant Association soon came to include men of property, artisans, London apprentices and those elements of the city that were known as the mobile vulgus or more colloquially 'the mob'." Peter Ackroyd, The History of England, Volume IV The year 1780 was well after the 'religious wars' – the reformation and especially the counter-reformation – were over. ...

I like happy endings: Leigh Hobbs We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Leigh Hobbs Normal text size Credit:Leigh Hobbs Tottenham Court Road in London. While it is a bit of a mess, it’s where the road leads that I like. Heading down Tottenham Court Road and into Charing Cross Road, past a run of nondescript Victorian buildings and drab 1970s / 1980s interlopers, the pay-off starts as soon as I spot the spire of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Passing the Edith Cavell statue, my stroll turns into a canter, for on my right is the National Portrait ...

The British wool industry is in crisis - here's how Prince Charles wants you to help Wool prices have halved in the last year, but this winter’s fashion for chunky jumpers and warm woollies could be a solution 20 January 2021 • 6:00am A cardigan by British label Palava, which uses wool from British sheep Credit: Emli Bendixen When the Prince of Wales carried out a science experiment at Clarence House, it made me rethink my wardrobe (and no, that’s not a sentence I ever thought I would write). Before the pandemic began, the Prince buried two jumpers – one made from wool-like synthetic ...

William Blake’s childhood vision on Peckham Rye is well known. Sauntering along, he looks up and, according to an early biographer, ‘sees a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars’. On another occasion, he ran indoors declaring he had seen the prophet Ezekiel under a tree. His wife, Catherine, later reported that Blake first saw God at the age of four. I love that ‘first’. The Bible’s vivid prophetic and visceral apocalyptic imagery stirred him as well. It ‘overawed his imagination’ so that ‘he saw it materialising around him,’ Pete...