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Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Keith Hockton, FRAS, is a writer, publisher, and award-winning podcaster based in Penang, Malaysia, with a deep passion for uncovering the stories that shaped our world. As the Southeast Asia Editor for International Living magazine, Keith explores the intersections of history, culture, and modern life across the region.
A dynamic lecturer and storyteller, he speaks internationally on Southeast Asian politics, economics, and history—bringing the past to life with clarity, wit, and insight. Keith is also a proud Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and is on a mission to make history not only accessible but genuinely entertaining for everyone.
His published books include:
• Atlas of Australian Dive Sites - Travellers Edition (Harper Collins Australia, 2003).
• Penang - An inside guide to its historic homes, buildings, monuments and parks (MPH Publishing, 2012; 2nd Edition 2014; 3rd Edition 2017).
• Festivals of Malaysia (Trafalgar Publishing, 2015).
• The Habitat Penang Hill: A pocket history (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Alana and the Secret Life of Trees at Night (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Penang Then & Now: A Century of Change in Pictures (Entrepot Publishing, 2019; 2nd Edition 2021
• Bersama Lima - Five Together (Entrepot Publishing, 2022)
www.entrepotpublishing.com
Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Nostradamus: The Prophet of Shadows
For centuries, the shadow of Nostradamus has stretched across history like a curse.
His cryptic quatrains, etched in riddles and veiled in doom, have been blamed—and believed—for the rise of tyrants, the fall of empires, and disasters still unfolding. Did he truly foresee Napoleon’s bloody ascent? The fires of World War II? The towers falling on September 11th?
Or was he something darker—a master manipulator of fear, cloaking ambiguity in mysticism and letting history do the rest?
Tonight, we walk the line between prophecy and madness, between the desperate need for meaning and the terrifying possibility that some futures are written… and sealed.
Michel de Nostredame: healer, heretic, or harbinger of hell?
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