Ronald Hutton CBE is Professor of History at the University of Bristol. He took degrees at Cambridge and then Oxford Universities, and was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He is a leading authority on the history of the British Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and on ancient and medieval paganism and magic. Professor Hutton has lectured all over the world, authored over 18 books and 93 essays and appeared in or presented scores of television and radio programmes.
This evening’s not to be missed lecture will draw upon some of his recent publications including The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present (Yale University Press 2017) and Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe (Yale University Press 2022) and his internationally acclaimed knowledge of paganism, witchcraft and magic, both ancient and modern.