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English: The True Story of an American Witch-Hunt

The birth of colonial America was marked by hope and hard work, but also anxiety and fear. On the remote plantations of the American frontier, settlers clung to popular beliefs from old England – portents, charms and the power of the devil. Witch-hunts were rare, but sometimes exploded with terrifying ferocity, among people convinced they were under demonic attack.

Drawing on previously neglected sources, Malcolm Gaskill’s new book The Ruin of All Witches explores witch-hunting in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651. Through the history of a single family’s tragedy, Gaskill sheds light on the harsh life of the New World, a society caught between supernatural and rationalist ways of thinking.

Malcolm Gaskill is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. One of Britain's leading experts in the history of witchcraft, his works include the highly-acclaimed Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans. In 2010, Malcolm was a visiting fellow in North American studies at the Eccles Centre of the British Library, where he conducted research for his book Between Two Worlds. In November 2021, Allen Lane published his most recent book The Ruin of All Witches.

Suzannah Lipscomb is an award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster. She is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Roehampton, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a columnist for History Today. She holds an MA, MSt, and DPhil from Lincoln and Balliol Colleges, Oxford. She has written five books, presented numerous history documentaries, and hosts the Not Just the Tudors podcast.
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