Malcolm Gaskill

Malcolm Gaskill is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia, specialising in the social and cultural history of seventeenth-century England and America, particularly the history of crime and witchcraft.

He is the author of seven books, including Between Two Worlds, Witchfinders, and Hellish Nell, a revised edition of which was published by Penguin, Allen Lane. The Ruin of all Witches, the story of a witch-panic in a New England frontier town, was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and became a Sunday Times bestseller, .

His most recent book, The Glass Mountain, tells the story escaped prisoners and partisans in wartime Italy through the experiences of his mysterious great uncle.

He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, and lives with his family in Cambridge.

Bibliography:

Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (2000)

Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy (2005)

Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction (2010)

Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans (2014)

The Ruin of all Witches: Life and Death in the New World (2021)

Hellish Nell: The Curious Case of Britain's Last Witch Trial (2023)

The Glass Mountain: Escape and Discovery in Wartime Italy (2025)