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Rylan Clark and Professor Alice Roberts stand in a forest next to a wolf and a crow

Witches of Essex

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Rylan Clark and Professor Alice Roberts stand in front of an old stately home

'It was state-sponsored violence against women': Rylan Clark and Professor Alice Roberts on Essex's witch trials

A re-enactment from 'Witches of Essex' shows Elizabeth Clarke confessing to Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne

Manningtree witch trials: Where the ‘Witchfinder General’ made his name

Actors portraying Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne lead a mob to arrest a witch

John Stearne: The Witchfinder General’s right-hand man

Black and white portrait photograph of Helen Duncan

Helen Duncan: Was she Britain's last witch?

A historical re-enactment of Brian Darcy interrogating Ursula Kemp

St Osyth witches: The witch trial that shook a quiet Essex village

Dramatic reconstruction of Agnes Waterhouse looking up at a noose

Chelmsford witch trials: The tragic case of Agnes Waterhouse

Three female actors portraying 16th and 17th century witches

Witches of Essex: What Rylan Clark and Prof. Alice Roberts' new series might reveal

Preparation for the Witches' Sabbath by David Teniers the Younger

5 wicked shapeshifting witches from British history

A woman tied to a stake

The 5 most unfair British witch trials

The Witch Trial by William Powell Frith

A discovery of witches: British witch trials in the 17th century

Rylan Clark and Professor Alice Roberts stand in front of an evidence board

Reopening the 1566 Essex Witch Trials - Witches of Essex

Professor Alice Roberts and Rylan Clark sit at a round table with a candle in the middle

Alice and Rylan visit a real witch - Witches of Essex

Rylan Clark and Professor Alice Roberts on Witches of Essex. They are seen sitting together in a house holding cups of tea and looking intently at someone speaking off screen.

Rylan and Alice visit England's most haunted jail – Witches of Essex

Rylan Clark and Professor Alice Roberts on Witches in Essex. They are seen sitting in a darkened room looking with interest at someone out of sight.

Witches’ broomsticks are a d**k joke?! – Witches of Essex

Left: A portrait from Hopkins from the 1857 edition of The Discovery of Witches. Right: Mary Dyer being led to her execution

The life of Matthew Hopkins, the opportunistic 'Witchfinder General'