By the early sixteenth-century, sixty-thousand Europeans were executed for witchcraft, four-fifths of whom were female. Biological sex did not offer exclusive protection against accusations of witchcraft, but let us discuss the sex-related reasons that compelled an overwhelmingly female majority of witchcraft accusations in early modern Europe.
Angela Buckley’s The Real Sherlock Holmes is Jerome Caminada, the infamous Manchester Detective. Amelia Fletcher-Jones interviews Angela and review the book.
Victorian leisure and crime historian, Andrew Davies recently spoke about his book, Gangs of Manchester at a late night lecture at the Manchester Art Gallery. Charlotte Johnson interviews him about his past and current work on the working classes in Manchester and other British cities.
Caroline Bishop reviews Lucy Worsley’s recent BBC series and book, A Very British Murder.
Our morbid fascination of crime is never more virulent than in the case of the serial killer. Evie Hull looks at serial killers throughout the ages.
