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Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images 400 years after the Lancashire Witches<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Lancaster University 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Departments of English & Creative Writing<\/a> and European Languages & Cultures<\/a><\/p>\n

Download the draft programme<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n

Plenary Speakers
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Joseph Delaney<\/strong> Joseph Delaney is the award-winning author of the Spook\u2019s Series of books. The latest title, The Spook\u2019s Blood: Book 10<\/em> (Wardstone Chronicles), is forthcoming.<\/p>\n

Official Website Spooksworld.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Diane Purkiss<\/strong> Diane Purkiss (Keble College, Oxford) is the author The Witch in History: Early Modern and Late Twentieth Century Reputations<\/em> (1996), Troublesome Things: a history of fairies and fairy stories<\/em> (2000), Literature, Gender, and Politics during the English Civil War<\/em> (2005), Shakespeare and the Supernatural<\/em> (2008), A History of Food in England<\/em> (2008), The dissolution of the English monasteries<\/em> (2010).<\/p>\n

She reviews for the TLS<\/em>, the Sunday Telegraph<\/em>, the Telegraph<\/em> and the Guardian<\/em>, and appears frequently on BBC Radio 4\u2032s Woman\u2019s Hour and on BBC TV.<\/p>\n

Official Website http:\/\/www.keble.ox.ac.uk\/academics\/about\/dr-d-purkiss<\/a><\/p>\n

Robert Poole<\/strong> Robert Poole (Reader in History at the University of Cumbria) is the editor of The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories<\/em> (2002) and the author of The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster <\/em>(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.<\/p>\n

Website: www.lancashirewitches.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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