A family of witches
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English - April 05, 2023 19:00 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MB - ★★★★ - 268 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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An 8 year old who condemns his own mother to execution in 1582: New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday, who researches Renaissance literature at Newcastle University, has been reading witch trial records from Elizabethan and Jacobean England to explore how they depict single mothers. And she finds chilling echoes of their language in newspaper articles in our own times.
Producer: Ruth Watts