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James Sharpe (historian)

James Anthony Sharpe, FRHS was an English social historian who was a professor emeritus of early modern history at the University of York. He was a specialist in witchcraft, and crime and punishment, in early modern England.

Selected publications
Crime in Seventeenth-Century England. Cambridge University Press/Past and Present Publications, 1983. • "William Holcroft his Booke": Office Holding in Late Stuart Essex. Essex Record Office, Essex Historical Documents, 2, 1986. • Crime and the Law in English Satirical Prints 1600 - 1832. Chadwyck - Healey, 1986. • Judicial Punishment in England. Faber and Faber, 1990. • Early Modern England: a Social History 1550 - 1760. Edward Arnold, 1987: 2nd edn., 1997. • Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in England 1550 - 1750. Hamish Hamilton, 1996. • Crime in Early Modern England 1550 - 1750. Longman, 1984: 2nd edn., 1998. • The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A horrible and true story of deception, witchcraft, murder and the King of England. Profile Books, 2000. • Witchcraft in Early Modern England. Longmans, 2001: 2nd edn., 2019. Seminar Studies in History series. • Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman. Profile Books, 2004. • A Fiery & Furious People. Random House, 2016. == References ==
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