Louise Yeoman (born 1968) is a historian and broadcaster specialising in the Scottish witch hunts and 17th century Scottish religious beliefs.[1][2]
Louise Yeoman | |
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| Education | University of St Andrews |
| Known for | Historian and broadcaster |
Career
editYeoman completed a PhD at the University of St Andrews on the subject of the Covenanters. She worked for a year at the National Archives of Scotland and for a short time at Glasgow University Library.[3] In 1992 she became curator of early modern manuscripts and cataloguer of the Wodrow Collection at the National Library of Scotland.[4] In 1996 she was curator of the Library's Jacobite exhibition A Nation Divided. In 1996-97 she was seconded to BBC Scotland as writer and presenter of the BBC TV series Stirring Times.[3]
From 2001 to 2003 Yeoman was co-director of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft alongside Julian Goodare.[5]
In 2014, interest in Lilias Adie's story encouraged Yeoman and Douglas Speirs, an archaeologist at Fife Council, to look for her burial site. Using 19th-century historical documents, they found a seaweed-covered slab of stone exactly where the documents described: in a group of rocks near the Torryburn railway bridge lay "the great stone doorstep that lies over the rifled grave of Lilly Eadie", and a rock with "the remains of an iron ring".[6]
Yeoman is now a producer and presenter at BBC Radio Scotland, where she works on programmes including Time Travels[7] and the Witch Hunt podcast series with Susan Morrison.[8] She has spoken out about the courage of accused Scottish witches such as Adie.[9]
Yeoman has spoken out in support of Scotland acknowledging the women killed as accused witches: “Do I think there should be a national statement that we think the witch hunt was wrong and we are sorry? Yes. Do I think there should be a national memorial? Yes, and local memorials.”[10]
Publications
edit- Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563-1736. J Goodare, L Yeoman, L Martin, J Miller. (University of Edinburgh. School of History, Classics and Archaeology, 2010).[11]
- Reportage Scotland: Scottish History in the Voices of Those Who Were There (Luath Press, 2005).[12]
- "Hunting the rich witch in Scotland: high status witchcraft suspects and their persecutors, 1590–1650", in J. Goodare, ed., The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), ISBN 0-7190-6024-9.
- Witchcraft in early modern Scotland: James VI's 'Demonology' and the North Berwick witches, Scottish Historical Review 81 (212), 267-269 (2002).
- Normand and Roberts (eds.), Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland, Scottish Historical Review 81 (2), 267-269 (2002).
- Satan's conspiracy, magic and witchcraft in 16th century Scotland, HISTORY 87 (288), 606-606 (2002).
- Archie's Invisible Worlds Discovered-spirituality, madness and Johnston of Wariston's family, RECORDS-SCOTTISH CHURCH HISTORY SOCIETY 27, 156-186 (1997).
- The Devil as Doctor: witchcraft, Wodrow and the wider World, Scottish Archives 1, 93-105 (1995).
- Heart-work: emotion, empowerment and authority in covenanting times (University of St Andrews, 1991).
References
edit- ^ "PORTRAIT Name: Louise Yeoman CV: Witch hunter". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ "Going on a Witch Hunt with new BBC radio podcast". Scottish Field. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Louise Yeoman". www.shca.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ "Louise Yeoman". Luath Press. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ "Calls for memorial to Scotland's tortured and executed witches". The Guardian. 29 October 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ "How to bury a witch". BBC News. 28 October 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ "Time Travels". BBC. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ "Witch Hunt". BBC. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ Dundee, University of. "Face Of 313 Year Old Witch Reconstructed : News". University of Dundee. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ Peebles, Cheryl. "Torryburn witch Lilias Adie honoured in village of her persecution". The Courier. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ "Louise Yeoman". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- ^ Yeoman, Louise (2005). Reportage Scotland : Scottish history in the voices of those who were there. Edinburgh: Luath Press. ISBN 1-84282-051-6. OCLC 63674007.