The crucible

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Rylan Clark and Alice Roberts investigate the twisted history of the Essex witch trials…

“Every time I go into some Midsomer Village it’s always the same thing. Blackmail, sexual-deviancy, suicide and murder. How could you possibly expect me to go live in one of them” – DCI Tom Barnaby We

It’s the end of August and I’m crammed into the window seat of a small artisan’s cottage preserved in the spirit of turn-of-the-century Donegal, Ireland. The fireplace, still in regular use, gives out

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Essex: A county bounded by water, flat, marshy and called by some the “graveyard of witches”. Between 1500 and 1800 over 1,000 men, women and children were executed for the crime of witchcraft in the