Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images 400 years after the Lancashire Witches
Lancaster University 2012
The Departments of English & Creative Writing and European Languages & Cultures
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Plenary Speakers
Joseph Delaney Joseph Delaney is the award-winning author of the Spook’s Series of books. The latest title, The Spook’s Blood: Book 10 (Wardstone Chronicles), is forthcoming.
Official Website Spooksworld.co.uk
Diane Purkiss Diane Purkiss (Keble College, Oxford) is the author The Witch in History: Early Modern and Late Twentieth Century Reputations (1996), Troublesome Things: a history of fairies and fairy stories (2000), Literature, Gender, and Politics during the English Civil War (2005), Shakespeare and the Supernatural (2008), A History of Food in England (2008), The dissolution of the English monasteries (2010).
She reviews for the TLS, the Sunday Telegraph, the Telegraph and the Guardian, and appears frequently on BBC Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour and on BBC TV.
Official Website http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/academics/about/dr-d-purkiss
Robert Poole Robert Poole (Reader in History at the University of Cumbria) is the editor of The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories (2002) and the author of The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (2011), an edition of the 1613 book of the trial with an extended introduction. He is consultant historian to the Lancashire Witches 400 Programme and has lectured and broadcast extensively on history.
Website: www.lancashirewitches.com.