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Marion Gibson explores what a 1580s witchcraft trial can reveal about poverty, social tensions and ordinary life in early modern England <\/p>

By Charlotte Hodgman\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 09 March 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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In the 1580s, the remote Essex village of St Osyth was beset by poverty and social tensions \u2013 and when a servant accused her neighbour of witchcraft, it sparked a crisis that engulfed the entire community. Speaking with Charlotte Hodgman, Marion Gibson explores what this late 16th-century witchcraft trial can tell us about life in early modern England.<\/p>\n\n

Marion Gibson is the author of The Witches of St Osyth: Persecution, Betrayal and Murder in Elizabethan England<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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