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About James Sharpe

James Sharpe is professor of history at the University of York Among his books are Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997) and Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman (Profile, 2004). James Sharpe’s latest book is Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot (Profile, 2005)

Articles by James Sharpe

Friday 4th November

The Gunpowder Plot: history's present

The popular celebration of a defeated Catholic terrorist conspiracy in 1605 raises uncomfortable questions about how history is memorialised in modern Britain, says James Sharpe.
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