Here is a revised expanded Amazon print on demand globally available edition of my History and Myth. There is an extra 50 pages of new material here. A few words on Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Some Glastonbury Abbey tales of my walkabout tour adventures and events during the Jubilee-Coronation period. What Livy might have thought about Queen Elizabeth II and Vera Lynn. And some pondering on the German QAnon infused coup plot where I do a psychogeographical deep dive into Thuringia and return to Norman Cohn’s Pursuit of the Millennium: Barbarossa mountain, self-flagellation cults, Konrad Schmid, Thomas Muntzer, V2 rockets, some Blood Libel history from the Nazis to QAnon Adrenochrome, and so on.
‘The writings of historians reflect the trends of the times in which they were written. This in turn can make a difference to how a society understands itself and the events it experiences and the responses it makes to them. Here is a Glastonbury-centred consideration of history from the perspectives of Arnold Toynbee and Titus Livius, of mystical experiences, cycles, portents, and of astrology. Includes: The Oddity of British Prime Ministers. The Great Conjunction Cycle 1284-1518-2020: Capricorn Pan, Cronos Saturn, Pluto Hades. Glastonbury Abbey. Henry VIII, William Rufus, Edward I, Edward III, Richard III. Richard Whiting, St Dunstan, Frederick Bligh Bond. Joseph of Arimathea King Arthur, Virgin Mary, the Holy Grail. Lord of Misrule, the Fisher King. The Pursuit of the Millennium and Extinction Rebellion. Book of Revelation template, Romance of the Golden Age, Age of the Holy Spirit. Dissolution of the Monasteries, Pilgrimage of Grace, Peasant’s Revolt, Anabaptist Munster Rebellion, Gordon Riots, Brexit. Glastonbury Plague Diary. The Victoria Park Lughnasadh 2012 Olympic Caper: a Psychogeographical Feast. Glastonbury Jubilee and Coronation 2022-3. German QAnon coup conspiracy. Featuring: Boris Johnson, Jan Bockelson, William Blake, Konrad Schmid, James Joyce, Joachim of Fiore, Frances Yates, Marsilio Ficino, Margaret Murray, Albrecht Durer, Scipio Aemelianus, Thomas Muntzer, Marguerite Porete.’
