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The four horsemen of the Apocalypse are expected to herald the end of the world according to the New Testament Book of Revelations. They are generally described as Conquest, War, Famine, and Death. The 3.30 at Uttoxeter is a bit of a comedown.
In 1987 we in the UK suffered from the Great Storm. A well-known weather man, Michael Fish, had famously dismissed any suggestion of extreme weather conditions. This cartoon shows a determination not to be caught again.
Producing any reading material in the Middle Ages was a labour-intensive activity generally performed by monks. The wrong letter in the title page would have taken many days to produce. Today such a typo can be corrected in a second.
Quite a lot of exaggeration is going on here. By no means all young people were dressing in the way shown here, though matching accessories didn’t figure much by then.