Malcolm Gaskill

Malcolm Gaskill is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He is an expert in witch-beliefs and witchcraft trials of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has written extensively on this subject, also about crime in general, mentalities and emotions, and twentieth-century Spiritualism. His latest project is a book entitled Out of this World: English Adventures in Seventeenth-Century America (forthcoming, 2013). This is a study of Anglo-American mentality and culture in the first century of permanent colonization - not a history of early America, but a history of English people in America. Gaskill is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a frequent contributor to TV and radio programmes. He lives in Cambridge with his partner and three young children.