Tag: New Year

• New Year, New Me: A History of Calendars

  

  So the New Year is here, and I’m sure many of you will have made resolutions or goals for how you’re going to make this year better than the last. As humans in a modern world, we are ruled by time. Minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years dictate our lives – what we are…

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  January 4, 2018

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  Calendar, English History, European History, French Revolution, history, History of Time, Mayan, Medieval Europe, Medieval History, Neolithic, New Year, Resolutions, Roman, Time

• Happy New Year, or End of the World? Early Modern Apocalypse Predictions

  

  If you’ve spent any time on social media in the last few weeks, or pretty much just spoken to anybody, then I am sure you will have heard the chorus of “I can’t wait for 2016 to be over!” “Worst year ever!” “2017 can’t surely be worse?!” and so on. It was only a few…

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  January 3, 2017

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  Apocalypse, Early Modern, Early Modern History, English History, European History, history, Medieval History, New Year, Nostradamus