Apocalypse Blogs

On 26 January 2017, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) held their annual unveiling of the Doomsday Clock, moving its minute hand from three minutes to midnight to 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Since 1947,

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 people that no,

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 were discussing

 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

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 stopping, climate-changing super-storm, melting polar

'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 ascended to heaven: