The Last Witches of England by John Callow

 Witches and witchcraft and the history of such things has been slowing seeping back into the pop culture of today and this book is a worthwhile addition to the discussion. This is a book about the women that were accused of being witches, why they were accused and how they responded to the accusations. There is also a lot of discussion around the idea of a witch craze and why so-called normal people can be drawn into such a fervor as too accuse and physically attack such people that the populace at large deemed witches. 

This book focuses on the Bideford witches who were the last women in England to be hanged for being witches. Each woman of the three responded to the accusations against her uniquely and with varying degrees of success in their end goal. 

However, as the book shows - years after these women's unfortunate deaths, they were used as an example to take back and repeal the witchcraft laws that were previously in place in England. 

This book takes a very intriguing part of history and really narrows it down into a period of time and set of people that were crucial to both the continuation and the ending of that time in history. 

I received this book free from NetGalley and Bloomsbury Academic to review and this is my honest review. 

Four out of five stars