Not Just the Tudors

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After the Civil War, a remote corner of Essex witnessed the most brutally devastating witch-hunt in English history. A dangerous maverick Matthew Hopkins, 'the Witchfinder General', hunted down vulnerable people across East Anglia, exploiting the anxiety and lawlessness of the times. In Not Just The Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more about Hopkins and his accomplice John Stearne from acclaimed historian and author Malcolm Gaskill.

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