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English woman executed for witchcraft in Ipswich in 1645, one of the few people in England to have been executed by burning after a conviction of witchcraft.

Witch trials in early modern England

Mar 29, 2024Eric CorbettEnglish, Witch trialFacebook post

History of witch trials in England from the 15th to the 18th century.

Eleanor Cobham

Mar 19, 2024Eric CorbettEnglish, Female, Sorcerer

English noblewoman and alleged sorcerer, forcibly divorced from her husband and sentenced to life imprisonment for treasonable necromancy.

Manchester Art Museum

Mar 5, 2024Eric CorbettEnglish, Greater Manchester, Museum

Educational venture undertaken by the philanthropist Thomas Horsfall, inaugurated in 1877. It closed in 1953, and most of its collection is now in the possession of the Manchester Art Gallery.

Richard Dadd

Feb 24, 2024Eric CorbettEnglish, Male, Painter

English painter of the Victorian era , noted for his depiction of fairies and other supernatural subjects. Most were completed while he was an inmate of Bedlam and Broadmoor lunatic asylums.