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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill
Category: Non-Fiction
Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams. In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and children left England's shores for America. Some were explorers and merchants, others soldiers and missionar ...Show more
Hellish Nell - Last of Britain's Witches by Malcolm Gaskill
Category: History
One of the last criminal trials using the 1735 Witchcraft Act was, improbably, in London in 1944. The accused was Helen Duncan, a middle-aged Scotswoman. This is her extraordinary story.Helen Duncan - known since childhood as 'Hellish Nell', for her uncontainable nature - was one of the most popular med ...Show more
The Ruin of All Witches - Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
Category: History
The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of WitchfindersIn the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits, and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sick ...Show more
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
Category: Non-Fiction
The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of WitchfindersIn the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretic ...Show more
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