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1. www.history.org.uk › secondary › moduleI, Ada / Young Quills reviews 2021 / Historical Association

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   The book talks about, in detail, her interest in mathematics, her education, family problems and desires not to fulfil society’s expectations. It not only details Lovelace’s early life, but also the ground-breaking invention of the Analytical Engine and mechanical programming.

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3. www.goodreads.com › book › showI, Ada: Ada Lovelace: Rebel. Genius. Visionary - Goodreads

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   Sep 3, 2020 · A wonderfully witty and poignant portrayal of the young life of Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician who is hailed as the world’s first computer programmer. Show more. Genres Historical Fiction Young Adult Audiobook Historical Feminism. 336 pages, Paperback. First published September 3, 2020.

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4. folklorethursday.com › halloween › fact-and-fictionFact or Fiction? The Fate of the Witchfinder General

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   Oct 4, 2018 · The Fate of the Witchfinder General. There is no name from the period of England’s witch trials more infamous than that of Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled witchfinder who was instrumental in the witch-panic that swept East Anglia in the middle of the 17 th century.

5. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › guidesMatthew Hopkins and the witch hunts of 1645-1647 - BBC

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   His book Daemonologie (1597) described what people thought of as the horrors of witchcraft, gave reasons for believing in witches and provided instructions on how to run witch trials. Readers...

6. historycollection.com › the-macabre-career-ofThe Macabre Career of Witch Finder General Belonged to this ...

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   Hopkins, an ardent Puritan, rose to fame when he became the self-appointed Witchfinder General of England. Historians believe that in three years, Hopkins was responsible for the executions of over 200 ‘witches’ across the southeast of England- not counting the deaths that occurred in custody from Hopkins’s very particular forms of interrogation.

7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Matthew_HopkinsMatthew Hopkins - Wikipedia

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   A portrait of Matthew Hopkins, 'The Celebrated Witch-finder', from the 1837 edition of The Discovery of Witches. Matthew Hopkins (c. 1620 – 12 August 1647) was an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War.

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   When did James Hopkins die?

   • Although James Hopkins had died in 1634, [ 14 ] when the iconoclast William Dowsing, commissioned in 1643 by the Parliamentarian Earl of Manchester [ 21 ] "for the destruction of monuments of idolatry and superstition", visited the parish in 1645 he observed that "there was nothing to reform". [ 22 ]

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   Who was Matthew Hopkins?

   • Parish records indicate that Matthew Hopkins was born in Little Wenham in Suffolk sometime around 1619. They suggest that Hopkins was the fourth son of James Hopkins, the Minister of Wenham. James Hopkins died in 1634, leaving the bulk of his estate to his wife Marie, to be divided amongst their six children when they reached the age of twenty-two.

   The Macabre Career of Witch Finder General Belonged to this Scheming

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   Was James Hopkins a Puritan?

   • They suggest that Hopkins was the fourth son of James Hopkins, the Minister of Wenham. James Hopkins died in 1634, leaving the bulk of his estate to his wife Marie, to be divided amongst their six children when they reached the age of twenty-two. The family had deep Puritan leanings.

   The Macabre Career of Witch Finder General Belonged to this Scheming

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   How many children did James Hopkins have?

   • James Hopkins died in 1634, leaving the bulk of his estate to his wife Marie, to be divided amongst their six children when they reached the age of twenty-two. The family had deep Puritan leanings. Hopkins’s eldest brother Thomas emigrated to New England while his brother John also became a Minister.

   The Macabre Career of Witch Finder General Belonged to this Scheming

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   How did Matthew Hopkins die?

   • Matthew Hopkins died at his home in Manningtree, Essex, on 12 August 1647, probably of pleural tuberculosis. He was buried a few hours after his death in the graveyard of the Church of St Mary at Mistley Heath. [ 67 ]

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   What happened to Matthew Hopkins & Stearne?

   • The fear of witches spread to other towns. Hopkins and Stearne were employed to continue their witch hunt and were paid for each witchcraft accusation that was proven. Between 1645 and 1647, around 112 of those accused of witchcraft were executed by hanging. In 1647, Matthew Hopkins disappeared from any records.

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9. www.goodreads.com › author › listBooks by James Hopkins (Author of Into the Heart of the Fire)

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   James Hopkins has 20 books on Goodreads with 109 ratings. James Hopkins’s most popular book is Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civ...