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 ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

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 ...