PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Tracy Borman studied and taught history at the University of Hull and was awarded a PhD in 1997. She went on to a successful career in heritage, and is now Chief Executive of the Heritage Education Trust and interim Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces. Tracy is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books, including Matilda: Queen of the Conqueror and Elizabeth's Women, which was Book of the Week on Radio 4.She regularly appears on television and radio, and is a contributor to BBC History Magazine.Tracy gives public talks and lectures across the country on a wide range of subjects.She lives in Surrey with her daughter.
Gripping... Stirring witchcraft, politics and sexual perversity into the cauldron of a superstitious age, Tracy Borman seasons her brew with suggestions of poisoning and the black arts. -- Iain Finlayson * The Times * Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life. -- Bella Bathurst * Observer * Spellbinding * Daily Telegraph * Tracy Borman has written a superb history of the witchcraze in early modern Europe focusing around this one case. Her book is enthralling and accurate... In many respects this is a triumph of popular historical writing. -- David Wootton * Guardian * A tantalising history... A panoramic survey of the witch craze that swept through Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. -- John Carey * Sunday Times *
