Events

2007-8

'The Devil in Essex: Matthew Hopkins and the Witch-Hunt of 1645', Saffron Walden History Society, Essex, May 2007.

'Matthew Hopkins and the East Anglian Witch-Hunt of 1645-7', Cromwell Lecture, Huntingdon, November 2007.

'Witch-Hunting in East Anglia during the English Civil War', Historical Association (Cambridge Branch), April 2008.

'Matthew Hopkins and the Witch-Hunt of 1645-7', Swavesey & District Local History Society, 2008.

2006

23 February: St. John's College History Society, Cambridge - 'Politics and Persecution: Hunting Witches during the English Civil War'.

28 February: Senior History Society, Oundle School - 'The East Anglian Witch-hunt of 1645-7'.

20 March: Essex Book Festival, Essex Record Office, Chelmsford - 'Witchfinders: a Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy'.

23 March: European Social Science History conference, Amsterdam - 'Witnesses, Witches and the Problem of Proof in Early Modern England'.

29 March: School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester - 'The Legal Significance of the East Anglian Witch-Hunt, 1645-7'.

22 April: 'Witchcraft and Masculinities in the Early Modern World' conference, Essex University - 'Sexual Anxiety in Seventeenth-Century England: Tales from the Eastern Witch-Craze'.

10 May: Cambridge Folk Museum - 'Witchcraft, Magic and Counter-Magic in Cambridgeshire'.

4 November: 'Storytelling, Law and Proof' conference, University of St Andrews - 'Testimony and Proof in the East Anglian Witch-Trials of 1645-7'.

1 December: Fenland History on Friday meeting, Ely Library - 'Witch-hunting in the Isle of Ely'.