Prejudices that led to witch-hunts still affect women today, says historian

Lucy Worsley: ‘Anyone who has ever been put down as a “difficult” woman hears a distant echo of the past.’ Photograph: Mike Robinson/BBC Studios

Prejudices that led to witch-hunts hundreds of years ago have not disappeared and women are still on the receiving end of men’s anger, a leading historian has said.

Writing in the Radio Times, Lucy Worsley, a historian and author, said: “[Although] we like to think we’re better than the people who hunted witches, witch-hunting still happens in some parts of the world today.”