Tag Archives: Oliver Cromwell

Salem Witch Trials, Part Two: Hysteria and Persecution

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 January 2025

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Salem Witch Trials, Part One: Massachusetts on the Eve of the Panic

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 January 2025

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Everyone Knows Much Less History Than They Used To

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 August 2024

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When England Made Assassination Central to Foreign Policy

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 April 2024

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The Popish Plot and its Legacy

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 November 2022

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The Trial of an English King

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2022

“Judgement of Charles I,” by Ladislaus Bakalowicz, 1650

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America, Puritanism, and Hysteria

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 July 2020

The Witch (2016) is set in the Plymouth Colony, what is now the U.S. state of Massachusetts, in the 1630s. The focus is on Puritanism and the witch craze, subjects that are not entirely irrelevant at the present time. Continue reading