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Friday 5th September, 2025
Selkirk Arms Hotel - Kirkcudbright, Scotland
10:00am
BST, UTC+1
Run time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Event Details
Elspeth McKewan, imprisoned and tortured in Kirkcudbright’s Tolbooth for two years, was burnt at the stake in 1698 as a witch. But what was her life really like? Former academic Ros Ollin mixes history, evidence and poetry to reclaim Elspeth from labels imposed on her. Copies of Restoring Elspeth: A Sequence of Poems on the Life and Death of the Last Woman Burned for Witchcraft in Dumfries and Galloway will be given to audience members.