Event 23
Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi talk to Kate Lister
Witch Trials: Ancient History or Modern Menace?
– St Mary’s Church
We think of the witch hunts of the 1500s as ancient history – but could they ever happen again? Join campaigners Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi with feminist writer Kate Lister to find out why the trials ripped through the country as they did, sealing the fate of many women with brutal execution.
Drawing on their Sunday Times bestseller How to Kill a Witch, they break down the horrifying process followed to identify, accuse, torture and convict. Attempting to inhabit the minds of the persecutors, often men, they reveal the inner workings of exactly why the Patriarchy went to such outrageous lengths to silence women.
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