American Witches (TRIH ep 331)
1650 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Professor Malcolm Gaskill about witchcraft and early colonial life in 17th-century New England, centring on his book The Ruin of All Witches. The conversation opens with a vivid account from Springfield, Massachusetts, and follows the lives of William Pynchon (founder), and the married couple Mary Lewis (later Mary Parsons) and Hugh Parsons.
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Around 1650
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Edo period (1603)