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Here, she dug into the origins of the persecution of “witches” in Britain in a gripping season opener that played out like an epoch-spanning whodunnit.
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This new series, casting Worsley as an inky-fingered sleuth shedding new light on well-worn episodes in British history, could run and run.
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The dead cat story was certainly a vivid start as Worsley began her hunt for clues to why hundreds of women fell victim to a century of state-sanctioned killings. Inevitably, this soon became history that walks to the rhythm of barely concealed antipathy at injustices past.