Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy

Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy

By spring 1645, two years of civil war had exacted a dreadful toll upon England. People lived in terror as disease and poverty spread, and the nation grew ever more politically divided. In a remote co…

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