Beginners Guide to Bobbin Lace

20th August 1612, ten people from Pendle, Lancashire, were excecuted in front of a vast crowd on the Gallows Hill in Lancaster, the ending of their months of imprisonment and torture so brutal that one died whilst awaiting trial. 

After four centuries of superstition and speculation, Carol Ann Lee brings a new perspective to the Pendle Witches, utilising her skills as a true crime author she examines the evidence against two warring families and exposes the prejudices and fears against the 'cunning women'.