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Thomas Waters
Dr. Thomas Waters is a Lecturer in History at Imperial College London and author of Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times (Yale, 2019). He read History at the universities of Leeds and then Oxford, and has lectured at Oxford, Derby, Hertfordshire, and Leeds, as well as for the Workers' Educational Association. He has authored a wide range of scholarly articles about the modern history of witchcraft and magic, and regularly writes and speaks for audiences beyond academia. Tom is currently working on a new history of nineteenth-century Britain.
Courses
For thousands of years, humans have been fascinated by witches. Through four stimulating lectures, this hybrid day event examines how witches have been represented over time – from the classical world to modern times.