This is a (Halloween special!) bonus episode that explores the image of Witches in Art, as told by Professor Lyndal Roper!
What is a witch? Where does it stem from? Why is she so often an old woman, who is harmful and evil? How did this perpetuate the way women were treated in history? What is a witch today?
Roper, a regius professor of History at the Uni ... Show More
Nov 12
Magda Keaney on Julia Margaret Cameron
I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the esteemed curator, author, and expert in photography, Madga Keany. Currently the Head Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Magda was most recently Curator at the National Portrait Gall ... Show More
40m 40s
Oct 29
Ekow Eshun on Toni Morrison, Octavia E. Butler, Hilary Mantel, Wangechi Mutu, and more
I'm so excited to say that today’s guest on the Great Women Artist Podcast is the esteemed curator, writer, broadcaster and cultural trailblazer, Ekow Eshun. Born in North-west London in 1968, Eshun has been at the forefront of creative culture for decades. Writing across subject ... Show More
1h 2m
Oct 2024
Inside the Witch Trials: Iceland | The Men Who Burned As Witches
<p>When we think of the witch trials, we often think of women being charged.</p><br><p>Whilst misogyny was at the heart of many of the witch trials, this isn't the full story.</p><br><p>In this second episode of a limited series, <em>Inside the Witch Trials</em>, we go back to th ... Show More
32m 35s
Oct 2021
Women and Witch Hunts in Scotland and England
<p>Season 3, Episode 11. Between 1450 and 1750, some 100,000 Europeans were tried for witchcraft, and some of the most intense periods of witchy panic took place in Scotland and England. Most, but not all, of these so-called witches were women. During this special Halloween episo ... Show More
47m 35s
Oct 2024
Anna Rasche, "The Stone Witch of Florence" (Park Row, 2024)
Anna Rasche's debut novel A Stone Witch of Florence (2024, Park Row) brings reader on a historical fiction adventure to Florence. As the Black Plague ravages Italy, Ginevra di Gasparo is summoned to Florence after nearly a decade of lonely exile. Ginevra has a gift--harnessing th ... Show More
34m 30s
May 2023
Episode 168: Witches, Demons and Fairies
In this episode, we explore the Elizabethan fascination with witchcraft and mysterious creatures like fairies and demons. Those subjects feature prominently in the literature of the period, and they reveal a lot about the world view of the people who lived in England in the late ... Show More
1h 56m
May 2025
The Real Witches of Romania
Witches paying taxes. Curses that make headlines. Haunted mountains and rituals that still shape lives in 2025. In this episode, we journey deep into Romania’s Carpathian Mountains—a place where folklore, fear, and real-world consequences collide. These aren’t fairy tales. This i ... Show More
27m 16s
Oct 1
184: The Devil's Secretaries or Scapegoats? The Witches History Erased
<div>Hi friends, happy Wednesday!<br>
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So the other night I was deep into my usual bedtime routine of doomscrolling, and I stumbled across this headline that said: “DID YOU KNOW: The Last Witch Trial Was in 1944.”<br>
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And I was like… I’m sorry, what? 1944? Like while the ... Show More
52m 53s