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Thursday 29th October 2026. The Richard Kelsall Lecture – Ian Short – Witchcraft 

Nowadays, witches are very popular, especially around Halloween, but that certainly wasn't the case in 17th Century England.  Ian will consider the causes of the "Witch Panic" that led to thousands of executions, and look at the evidence of witches in Cheshire, compared to the rest of Britain and the wider world.