A highly unusual 17th-century painting featuring a Black sitter and a white sitter side by side is on rare public view.

Throughout accounts of 17th-century witch trials in Europe and North America ... historical witch hunts overwhelmingly targeted women—particularly women who led an independent lifestyle ...

The petitions offer a rare glimpse into the little-heard or recorded stories of 17th Century working women, in their own words A rare collection of 300-year-old petitions has revealed the legal ...

Employment types open to 17th Century women came with a much higher risk of magical sabotage claims, a Cambridge University historian has found. Dr Philippa Carter used the casebooks of a ...

Amanda Foreman analyses the seventeenth century persecution of women as witches ... The explosion of witch trials during the 17th century in Europe is explored using vivid illustrations of ...