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Dr Martha McGill

Dr Martha McGill

Conversation article

I published a short piece on divination in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/divination-in-early-modern-britain-sought-signs-in-swine-the-stars-and-scripture-241825 It introduces some of the themes explored more fully in the digital exhibition Stars, Sieves & Stories. I love…

Witches: Truth Behind the Trials

I feature as a commentator in some episodes of this six-part National Geographic series: https://www.natgeotv.com/uk/shows/natgeo/witches-truth-behind-the-trials I don’t like watching things I appear in, but I was impressed during filming by…

Stars, Sieves & Stories

I wrote before about the fortune-telling exhibition I created (with Imogen Knox and Francesca Farnell) to celebrate Coventry’s year as City of Culture. Reading people’s palms and helping them to…