02.43 - The Hunt Begins

Matthew Hopkins, the infamous Witch-Finder General, begins his
campaign through south-eastern England, as we discuss the opening
accusations of the greatest and deadliest witch hunt in English
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makes use of the following texts: - Gaskill, Malcolm,
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)
- Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in
Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002 - Purkiss,
DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)
- Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft
Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century
England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002
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