By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 September 2026
Little Saint Hugh: England’s Worst Blood Libel Craze
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Tag Archives: Oliver Cromwell
Salem Witch Trials, Part Two: Hysteria and Persecution
Salem Witch Trials, Part One: Massachusetts on the Eve of the Panic
Everyone Knows Much Less History Than They Used To
When England Made Assassination Central to Foreign Policy
The Popish Plot and its Legacy
The Trial of an English King
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2022
“Judgement of Charles I,” by Ladislaus Bakalowicz, 1650
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
