Participant Info
- First Name
- Marion
- Last Name
- Gibson
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- Marion.h.gibson@exeter.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Exeter
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Witchcraft, magic, history, literature, puritans, paganism, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, British, Salem, American
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- Agent: Joanna Swainson at Hardman and Swainson
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I’m a historian of witchcraft and magic. In particular, I publish books about ancient and modern texts (fictional literature, court records and other writings) about witches and witch-trials in Britain and America. I also have written about whether witches were pagans, on Anglo-Saxon and Celtic paganism in Britain, and on modern paganism. I like talking about witches and paganism on radio, TV, in podcasts etc in ways that are easy to understand but well-informed by proper scholarship.
- Recent Publications
Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
The Witches of St Osyth (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Witchcraft: The Basics (Routledge, 2018)
Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft (Routledge, 2018)
Imagining the Pagan Past (Routledge, 2013)
Possession, Puritanism and Print (Pickering and Chatto, 2006)
- Media Coverage
- I’ve worked with BBC, Channel 4, PBS, Sky History, Discovery and many production companies on documentaries about witches and magic: most recently Discovery Science, Mythical Beasts and PBS, Secrets of the Dead
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- UK, US
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, England, North America, United Kingdom, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient, Medieval, Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Literary History, Public History, Women
