The Pendle Trials saw 10 women and men executed after being found guilty of black magic. Yet 400 years later, despite the ...

In the years before King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne too, he oversaw a rather brutal witch trial that would go down in history as one of Europe's bloodiest. Visitors to North ...

Democracy on Trial holds an unflinching mirror to Indian society and politics, warning readers that India today may be a democracy in name but lacks its essence. The book argues that the inherent ...

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Justice Juan Merchan — who oversaw a trial in which jurors found Trump ... the guilty verdict he claims stemmed from a political “witch hunt.” While Trump was forced to sit in court daily ...

O n July 8, 1723, a book was put on trial. The Grand Jury of Middlesex County Court, in England, was presented with a work that corrupted public morals to such an extent that it might “debauch ...

Fellow cubs and scouts from St Mary Magdalene's in Clitheroe, wanted to raise £4,000 to help 10-year-old Ashton by climbing Pendle Hill in the dark. The money was needed for a defibrillator to be ...

Adey Lobb talks to Maxine Peake about steering clear of the mainstream and her album with the Eccentronic Research Council about the Pendle Witch Trial Over lunch at Ottolenghi and a few pints at the ...

Peter T. Leeson and Jacob W. Russ published “Witch Trials” in the Economic Journal and it provides an interesting overview of witch-trial activity across European countries between 1300 and 1850. The ...