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What Does Nostradamus Predict Will Happen in 2023? By Lucy Davidson, Monday, January 23, 2023 1:58 PM French astrologer, apothecary, physician and reputed seer Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566) is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), which, via its 942 poetic quatrains, allegedly predicts future events. An extraordinary text, it has never gone out of print, in part because there is a cult movement that suggests that it can … Continued Read more »     The Siege of Basing House: A Bloody Chapter of the English Civil War By Harry Atkins, Saturday, January 21, 2023 5:29 PM As Jessie Childs notes in the introduction of her book, The Siege of Loyalty House, the English Civil War claimed a greater proportion of British lives than the First World War. And yet, perhaps inevitably, our understanding of the scale of a conflict that wreaked unfathomable destruction and violence on the British population has dimmed … Continued Read more »     Anne’s Sister: 10 Facts About Mary Boleyn By Richard Bevan, Thursday, January 19, 2023 11:37 AM Mary Boleyn (1499-1543) was the most famous member of the Boleyn family before her sister Anne’s ascendancy as Queen of England in 1533. Yet Mary’s early renown was something of a dubious honour, since it was based on her adulterous affair with King Henry VIII: Mary is thought to have been Henry’s mistress for a … Continued Read more »

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