Why Did People Believe in Witchcraft? A talk by Professor Darren Oldridge

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Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm

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The Fleece Inn, The Cross, Bretforton,, WR11 7JE Evesham, United Kingdom | Evesham, EN

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Darren Oldridge is a specialist in sixteenth and seventeenth-century religious history. His interests include witchcraft and the Devil, the supernatural, and the religious context of the English Civil Wars. A recurring theme of his work is the rationality underpinning apparently strange beliefs: this is reflected, most recently, in the new edition of Strange Histories (Routledge: 2017). More broadly, he is interested in the relationship between poetry and film and the past.
At present he is writing a book on early modern English demonology and editing the fourth edition of The Witchcraft Reader, to be published by Routledge in 2025 and 2028 respectively.
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