Simon Armitage – one of Britain’s leading poets – was born in West Yorkshire. Like many local children, he would have been raised on stories of the Pendle Witches in nearby Lancashire. A grimly intoxicating blend of history, crime and folklore is richly evoked in Armitage’s new BBC Four documentary, The Pendle Witch Child. Next [...]
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The Pendle Witch Child
Posted in History, Television, Witchcraft, tagged Child Witnesses, Documentaries, Early Modern History, Jennet Device, Lancashire Witches, Pendle Witches, Phoebe Boswell, Simon Armitage, The Pendle Witch Child, Witchcraft on August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wicked Enchantments
Posted in Books, History, Non-Fiction, Witchcraft, tagged Early Modern History, Joyce Froome, Lancashire, Museum of Witchcraft, Pendle Witches, Wicked Enchantments, Witchcraft on July 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wicked Enchantments: A History of the Pendle Witches and Their Magic by Joyce Froome With its 400th anniversary approaching, the Pendle witch trial of 1612 is once again the focus of historical discussion. What was the largest investigation of its kind in England (until the Matthew Hopkins purges in East Anglia some thirty years later) [...]
The Lancashire Witches
Posted in Books, Fiction, History, Witchcraft, tagged Lancashire Witches, Pendle Witches, William Harrison Ainsworth on January 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) was a historical novelist and one of the most popular English authors of the later 19th century. Born in Manchester, he trained as a lawyer and practised in London, but his true ambitions were always literary. In his youth, Ainsworth read adventure stories and was an admirer of Dick Turpin, the [...]
HerStoria
Posted in Brighton, History, Magazines, Witchcraft, tagged Brighton, HerStoria, Regency, Witchcraft on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
HerStoria is a new quarterly magazine, launched in Liverpool this February. Its byline is ‘history that puts women in their place’. Women’s role in history has sometimes been overlooked, though the same could also be said for other groups such as the working class and non-whites. Focussing on their stories helps us to understand the [...]
The Lancashire Witch Conspiracy
Posted in Books, History, Witchcraft, tagged Lancashire Witches, Pendle Witches on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Lancashire Witch Conspiracy is a remarkable new book by John A. Clayton, focusing on the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612. He has undertaken extensive research to achieve what seemed impossible, bringing valuable new evidence to light. It was the largest witch trial in England at that time, surpassed only by Matthew Hopkins’ reign of [...]
Lois The Witch
Posted in Books, Fiction, History, Witchcraft, tagged Elizabeth Gaskell, Gothic, Salem, Victorian, Witch on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I studied Elizabeth Gaskell’s North And South for my English Literature A Level, without much enthusiasm. Nearly 20 years later, I’ve taken a look at Mrs Gaskell’s other work. She also wrote a number of short stories in the gothic genre, seemingly a world away from her more familiar social realism.
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