Malcolm Gaskill
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Malcolm Gaskill

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Malcolm Gaskill is Emeritus 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, about which he has written extensively. His other areas of interest include crime and the law, mentalities and emotions, and spiritualism. His most recent book is Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans (2014), a study of Anglo-American mentality and culture in the seventeenth century. A new book, The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World, is set on the New England frontier, and will be published by Penguin, Allen Lane in November 2021. Gaskill is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books. He lives in Cambridge with his partner and their three children.
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