Perhaps the most infamous witch hunt in history is that which consumed the American town of Salem, Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. An all-consuming spate of mass-hysteria, it was sparked by the accusation of a single enslaved woman, named Tituba. Her...
Who Was Samuel Pepys? Samuel Pepys (pronounced ‘Peeps’) was a British public servant, naval admiral and later MP, who was born to tailor John Pepys and his wife Margaret, on Fleet Street, London in February 1633. In 1642, when Samuel was nine years-old, the English...
