Welcome to the British History Podcast, my name is Jamie.

And this is our 100th episode, can you believe that?

And of course, that means that we've got a Q&A for today and you guys really rose to

the challenge.

I've really enjoyed reading the questions you've sent in and my thought is that to be fair,

I'm just going to go through as many questions as I can and hopefully I'm going to get to yours.

So to start with, Peggy wants to know something about Scotland.

Well, that's a pretty broad question, but let's run with it.

Did you know that the last person to be imprisoned under Britain's Witchcraft Act was a Scott?

Her name was Helen Duncan and she claimed to be a medium.

The problem was that she was holding seances where she was apparently letting people

speak to the spirits of dead soldiers.

And well, that just wasn't good for morale in World War II.

Yes, World War II.

Helen Duncan was imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act in 1944.

Way to keep up with the rest of the Western world, Britain.

And it makes me wonder how my great grandmother avoided the police, actually,

considering the fact that she was a medium and would read tea leaves back in the pre and post-war days.

Anyway, the funny thing about this story is that Helen wasn't the last person to be convicted,

just the last person to be imprisoned.

The honor of the last conviction went to an English woman by the name of Jane York.

But being that she was English and also 72 years old,

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