Friday 22 June 2018
Rathbones Marquee - Wimpole Estate
Why did people in the Western world persecute witches, and were they mostly women?
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Malcolm Gaskill, author of Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy, and Ulinka Rublack, author of The Astronomer and the Witch, discuss the prosecution of witches in England and illuminate one of the most tragic and misunderstood episodes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the ‘witch-craze’.
Chaired by Harriet Lyon, A.H. Lloyd Junior Research Fellow, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge
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15:00 - 16:00