Publications
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Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England |
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Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches
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Witchfinders: a Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy |
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Witchcraft: a Very Short Introduction. |
Out of This World: English Adventures in America, 1607-1692.
Monograph, to be published in 2012.
Editions
The Matthew Hopkins Trials, edited volume of facsimile printed works, volume 3 in James Sharpe and Richard M. Golden (eds), Writings on English Witchcraft 1560-1736, 6 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003).
Journal Articles & Essays
'Witchcraft and power in early modern England: the case of Margaret Moore', in Jenny Kermode and Garthine Walker (eds), Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England (London: UCL Press, 1994), pp. 125-45.
'Witchcraft in early modern Kent: stereotypes and the background to accusations', in Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester and Gareth Roberts (eds), Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief(Cambridge: CUP, 1996), pp. 257-87. 'The displacement of providence: policing and prosecution in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England', Continuity & Change, 11 (1996), pp. 341-74. 'Reporting murder: fiction in the archives in early modern England',Social History, 23 (1998), pp. 1-30. 'The devil in the shape of a man: witchcraft, conflict and belief in Jacobean England', Historical Research, 71 (1998), pp. 142-71. 'Witches and witchcraft prosecutions, 1560-1660', in Michael Zell (ed.),Early Modern Kent 1540-1640 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2000), pp. 245-77.'Witches and witnesses in old and New England', in Stuart Clark (ed.),Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2001), pp. 55-80. 'Mentalities from crime: listening to witnesses in early modern England', in Philippe Chassaigne et Jean-Paul Genet (eds), Droit et Societé en France et en Grande-Bretagne XIIE-XXE Siècles (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2003), pp. 91-101. 'Witchcraft, emotion and imagination in the English civil war', in John Newton (ed.), Witchcraft and the Act of 1604, forthcoming, Brill, Leiden, 2006. 'Time's arrows: context and anachronism in the history of mentalities', forthcoming, Scientia Poetica, 9 (2006). 'Fear made flesh: moral panics and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century England', in David Lemmings (ed.), Moral Panics in Early Modern England, forthcoming hopefully Boydell, Woodbridge, 2007. 'Witchcraft and evidence: the legal significance of the East Anglian witch-hunt of 1645- 7', article in preparation for Past & Present. 'The witch and the maid: politics, religion and magic in seventeenth-century England', article in preparation for the Historical Journal.Review Articles
'"Crime, the law, and the state": University of Essex/Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, Comparative History Summer School, 6-10 July 1992' (with Tim Meldrum), Social History, 18 (1993), pp. 87-92.
'New directions in the history of crime and the law in early modern England', in Louis A. Knafla (ed.), Crime, Gender and Sexuality in Criminal Prosecutions, Criminal Justice History, 17 (Westport, CT, 2002), pp. 147-169.Magazine and Newspaper Articles
'Britain's last witch', History Today, 51 (May 2001), pp. 6-7.
'England's witch-craze', BBC History Magazine, 6 (May 2005), pp. 24-8. 'Witchfinders', Fortean Times, 198 (July 2005), pp. 30-6. 'Remembering a Fraudulent Medium', Catholic Herald, forthcoming, August 2006.Online Articles
'The devil in Essex: witch-hunting in old and New England', Channel 4 'History Heads' website, June 2002.
'Witchfinder General (1968)', historical film review, Channel 4 'History Heads' website, December 2004.Reference Entries
'Witchcraft', in Arthur F. Kinney, David W. Swain and Eugene D. Hill (eds), Tudor England: An Encyclopaedia (Garland Publishing, 2000).
'Helen Duncan', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. 'James VI and I', 'Dr John Lambe', 'John Lowes', 'Henry More', Witch of Newbury', 'St Osyth witches', in Richard Golden (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Witchcraft: the Western Tradition, 4 vols (ABC-CLIO, 2006). 'Matthew Hopkins', in Francis Bremer and Tom Webster (eds), The Encyclopaedia of Puritanism, 2 vols (ABC-CLIO, 2006). 'Salem Witchcraft Trials', 'English Witchcraft Trials', 'Scottish Witchcraft Trials', in Peter Cane and Joanne Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion to Law, forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2008.Book Reviews in Academic Journals
Various for the Historical Journal, History, Journal of Modern History, English Historical Review, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Albion, Journal of British Studies, Social History, Continuity & Change, Criminal Justice History, International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice Newsletter, London Journal, History & Computing.
Book Reviews in Magazines & Newspapers
J. A. Sharpe, Crime in Early Modern England, 1550-1750, 2nd edn (London, 1998), History Today, 2000.
James Sharpe, The Bewitching of Anne Gunter (London, 1999), History Today, 2000. P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, An Abundance of Witches: the Great Scottish Witch-Hunt (Stroud, 2005), The Scotsman (27 August 2005). Tim Harris, Revolution: the Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685 - 1720 (London, 2006), and Edward Vallance, The Glorious Revolution: 1688 - Britain's Fight for Liberty (London, 2006), The Independent, 24 February 2006. Diane Purkiss, The English Civil War: a People's History (London, 2006),Sunday Telegraph, 12 May 2006. Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: a Voyage to War (London, 2006),Sunday Telegraph, 11 June 2006. Patrick Dillon, The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World (London, 2006), Sunday Telegraph, 23 July 2006.
