WITCHLAND: TALES OF THE “WITCHES” OF ENGLAND’S CIVIL WAR. By Marion Gibson
PROF. MARION GIBSON: Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures, Director of Flexible Combined Honours. TALK: During the English Civil War of the 1640s many communities experienced witch trials. The witchfinders are famous, but who were the people they accused?
In this talk, Marion Gibson reveals new discoveries based on archival research. She is Emerita Professor at Exeter University and the author of Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials and Witchland: A Tale of Witch Hunting and War in 17th Century Britain
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