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Our Extra Interview today is Professor Malcolm Gaskill.

Malcolm is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History, University of East Anglia. His research interests are in British social and cultural history, 1500–1800, particularly the history of mentalities. He has written extensively about the history of witch-beliefs and witchcraft prosecutions, and is also interested in crime and the law, and the supernatural in the twentieth century, especially spiritualism and psychical research, 1920–50. He is currently writing a short history of witchcraft, while researching a book about emotion, mentality and culture in seventeenth-century English America. His most recent work is a history of the East Anglian witch-hunt of 1645-7, Witchfinders: a Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy (2005).

He is also the author of Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches (2001), and he tells us about the life of this 20th century medium, and how her wartime seances lead her to be the final person in Britain convicted under the Witchcraft Act.