500 years of witches in art and design

Grab your broom and join us for a spellbinding flight through a 500-year history of witches and witchcraft in art and design. 
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Once seen as evil, supernatural beings to be feared and stigmatised, witches were persecuted, tortured, put on trial and burned at the stake for centuries. From the earliest medieval depictions of witches, through to Shakespeare's 'weird sisters', Victorian femme-fatales and beloved modern-day screen witches like Hermione Granger and Sabrina, our resident witch experts Ruth and Lydia map their cultural transformation from harpies to heroines, and find out why, in the 21st century, it's finally a good time to be a witch.

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