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Histories and Castles publishes history built on evidence, not ceremony.
These books share a single method: take an institution or a belief system that most people only know through myth, and put it on trial.
No Law for the Poor examines how justice actually worked in medieval England and Wales, and who it was built to exclude. The Pendle Witch Conspiracy reconstructs the legal and political machinery behind the 1612 witch trials, and the child whose testimony sent her own family to the gallows. The Truth Behind Welsh Myths and Legends looks past the fairies and folklore to the social function they served in a country that largely avoided the witch hunts sweeping its neighbours.
Read individually, each book is a case file. Read together, they form an argument: that the forces which shaped ordinary medieval life were rarely the ones written into the official record.