Tomatoes were reviled for centuries—so how did we come to embrace them? This small New Jersey town claims to have played a ...

A play about the 1612 trial of the Pendle Witches is coming to Ashton-on-Ribble. Maleficium: A Story of the Pendle Witches reimagines the tale of the women who were accused of witchcraft and executed ...

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Coven, a new musical about the Pendle Witch Trials, will have its world premiere. With music and lyrics by Grammy Award-winning Daisy Chute and Rebecca Brewer, and a book by Brewer, it is directed by ...

The trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the most famous witch trials in English history, and some of the best recorded of the 17th century. The twelve accused lived in the area ...

Willan, who has won two BAFTA Awards, for her writing and acting in Alma, is now working on her next project, a satire about the Pendle witch trials of 1612, which she is developing with fellow ...

The Bamberg witch trials of 1627–1632 were one of the biggest ... she learned the story of the Pendle witches —eight women and two men from Lancashire executed in 1612, after the intervention ...

Suranne Jones thinks it's about time the term "witch trials" got a "rebrand". Given that the bulk of people executed were of course women, not witches, she argues their plight should be renamed.

Whatever you expected from a documentary called Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials (Channel 4), it probably wasn’t Jones and singer Bat for Lashes communicating with one another in wolf ...

In the documentary, mum-of-one Suranne investigates Lancashire’s ­infamous Pendle Witch Trials of 1612, which happened close to where she grew up. Ten people were sentenced to death – but the ...

Alamy Some filming took place in the town of Pendle, known for the most famous witch trials in English history. In the 17th century, twelve people were accused of witchcraft there; one died in ...

For something so synonymous with Pendle, so much of what led to the 1612 witch trials remains shrouded in mystery. For years, doubts have been raised about precisely where the Pendle Witches are ...