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Dr Debra Parish is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. Debra’s areas of research and teaching include early modern women’s religiosity and prophecy, European and English witch-hunting and persecutions, and the role of witchcraft in the religious conflicts of the seventeenth-century English revolutionary period. Her new book, Prophets and Witches (Routledge 2026), explores the role of both gender and politics in the construction of the witch.
Dr Tabitha Stanmore is a social historian of magic and witchcraft in later medieval and early modern England. Her PhD focused on English 'service' magic - magic performed for practical ends, in return for a fee - between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, exploring the way that the supernatural fit into the mundane aspects of everyday life. Tabitha's current research is on the witch hunt in 1640s Cambridgeshire, taking a long view of the lives of those caught up in the trials. She is Series Co-Editor for the Cambridge Elements in Folklore and author of Love Spells and Lost Treasure (CUP, 2023) and Cunning Folk (2024).
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