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Salem: Investigating the Witch Trials HistoryExtra podcast series title card

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Salem witch trials | History podcast series

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SalemInvestigating the witch trials

A scene from the Salem witch trials, depicted in a 19th-century lithograph. How two girls’ accusations of witchcraft escalated into one of the darkest episodes in early American history has long puzzled historians. (Image by Alamy)

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When the devil stalked Salem: the story of the Salem witch trials

Two girls are tried for witchcraft in a courtroom scene

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What were the Salem Witch Trials?

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Week threeWitch trials. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A person with light hair and glasses sits in a garden beside a stone wall, surrounded by blooming red roses and green plants. They wear a brown dress with white polka dots and rest one arm on their knee while the other hand supports their chin, giving a relaxed, contemplative pose.

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"In the 1640s, people searched for the devil’s followers”: hunting witches in the Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Witch trials, with Professor Marion Gibson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An 1866 painting imagines a suspected ‘witch’ being led away from a braying mob during the 17th century (Photo by WAVE: The Museums, Galleries and Archives of Wolverhampton/Getty Images)

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Rough injustice: what really happened at a witch trial?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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10 June

A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

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The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

Tituba of Salem, in a 19th-century illustration (Photo by The Granger Collection/Alamy)

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5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of witchcraft. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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5 books about witchcraft, selected by Professor Marion Gibson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Scotland's season of the witch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A sepia-toned courtroom scene filled with seated men and guards is overlaid with the text “Sunday Series: Nuremberg Trials”.

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Season 2The Nuremberg Trials

A woodcut-style illustration depicts a group of accused people bound together and surrounded by flames, including one figure shown with an animal-like head.

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Tudor England's witch hunts killed hundreds of women. The death toll was nearly even worse. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Week oneWhat is a witch?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of a witch on a broomstick, wearing a pointed hat.

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Why do ‘wicked’ witches wear pointed hats? The real history explained

On This Day

22 January

On This Day

29 February

Composite image featuring a portrait of Winston Churchill over scenes of the Nuremberg Trials and soldiers carrying out wartime executions.

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Before the Nuremberg Trials, this was Winston Churchill’s shocking plan for Nazi war criminals

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Week four – Witches in popular culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A group of supposed witches being beaten in front of King James I and VI

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Why was King James VI and I obsessed with witch hunts?

Hermann Göring testifies in his own defense at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. Once a leading figure of the Nazi regime, Göring faced prosecution alongside other high-ranking officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the aftermath of the Second World War.

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The Nuremberg Trials: the real history behind the post-WW2 tribunal that brought Nazi leaders to justice

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Witches in popular culture, with Professor Marion Gibson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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"If you represent Pinochet in this case, I will divorce you”: the sensational trial of the Chilean dictator. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 20th-century image depicts a ‘witch’ being burned alive in Munich. In reality, most suspects had already been killed before being set alight (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

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8 popular misconceptions about the history of witchcraft in Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

“A collage showing three historical figures: an older person in a coat and hat raising a hand, a middle‑aged person in a suit, and an 18th‑century portrait of a man with curled hair and formal dress, all set against a deep blue textured backdrop

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Famous last words: what did Winston Churchill, Walt Disney and Marie Antoinette say on their deathbeds?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Witches history podcast episodes

OJ Simpson confers with lawyers during his murder trial

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What the OJ Simpson trial revealed about modern America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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