The ancient forest of Selwood straddles the borders of Somerset and Wiltshire and terminates in the south where these counties meet Dorset. Until now, a compreh

'Intensely readable, poetic, truthful, wise and wonderful.' STEPHEN FRY 'An extraordinary book.' SUNDAY TIMES Struggling to comprehend the shocking death of his

Explore the secret history of Frome and the surrounding area through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.

The witchcraft narratives explored in this study concern the ancient royal forest of Selwood, which straddled the Somerset-Wiltshire border and extended south o

As the author notes, ‘The early-modern European witch-hunts were neither orchestrated massacres nor spontaneous pogroms. Alleged witches were not rounded up a