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SalemInvestigating the witch trials

A scene from the Salem witch trials, depicted in a 19th-century lithograph. How two girls’ accusations of witchcraft escalated into one of the darkest episodes in early American history has long puzzled historians. (Image by Alamy)

When the devil stalked Salem: the story of the Salem witch trials

Two girls are tried for witchcraft in a courtroom scene

What were the Salem Witch Trials?

Week threeWitch trials.

Witch trials, with Professor Marion Gibson.

An 1866 painting imagines a suspected ‘witch’ being led away from a braying mob during the 17th century (Photo by WAVE: The Museums, Galleries and Archives of Wolverhampton/Getty Images)

Rough injustice: what really happened at a witch trial?.

10 June

A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

Tituba of Salem, in a 19th-century illustration (Photo by The Granger Collection/Alamy)

General Early Modern

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of witchcraft.

Scotland's season of the witch.

5 books about witchcraft, selected by Professor Marion Gibson.

An illustration of a witch on a broomstick, wearing a pointed hat.

General History

Why do ‘wicked’ witches wear pointed hats? The real history explained

Week oneWhat is a witch?.

22 January

29 February

Week four – Witches in popular culture.

General History

Halloween podcast episodes

Hermann Göring testifies in his own defense at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. Once a leading figure of the Nazi regime, Göring faced prosecution alongside other high-ranking officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Second World War

The Nuremberg Trials: the real history behind the post-WW2 tribunal that brought Nazi leaders to justice

A group of supposed witches being beaten in front of King James I and VI

Why was King James VI and I obsessed with witch hunts?

Witches in popular culture, with Professor Marion Gibson.

"If you represent Pinochet in this case, I will divorce you”: the sensational trial of the Chilean dictator.

A 20th-century image depicts a ‘witch’ being burned alive in Munich. In reality, most suspects had already been killed before being set alight (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

8 popular misconceptions about the history of witchcraft in Europe.

General History

Witches history podcast episodes

OJ Simpson confers with lawyers during his murder trial

What the OJ Simpson trial revealed about modern America.

A witch feeds her familiars in this illustration from the 1579 pamphlet about Windsor woman Elizabeth Stile (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

Forgotten TudorsWhat the lives of ordinary people tell us about Tudor England.

The Statue of Liberty in New York. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

QuizAmerican history

Suspected witch Mary Sutton is “swum” in a Bedfordshire millpond in 1612, as shown in a contemporary illustration. (Picture by Getty Images)

Witchfinding: what drove the hunters’ cruel crusade and what methods did they use?.

A axe stuck in a piece of wood

General Early Modern

Q&AWhy do we say 'bury the hatchet'?

A fifteenth century manuscript illustration showing the Knights Templar being burned in the presence of King Philip IV of France.

Templars on trial: why were the Knights accused of such heinous crimes?.