Danny Buck

Dr Danny Buck completed an Early Modern History PhD at the University of East Anglia supervised by Dr Malcolm Gaskill and Dr Polly Ha. He completed his BA in Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford under early modern specialists Dr Perry Gauci and Dr Susan Brigden and his MA with distinction in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia.

An experienced Research Historian, his PhD Presbyterianism, Urban Politics, and Division: The 1645 Great Yarmouth Witch-Hunt in Context is a unique study of the local political and religious divisions that lay behind witch-hunting in Early Modern towns. He has published work on several Early Modern topics, including the chapter ‘The MP and the Astrologer: Rival cultures of witchcraft in the East Anglian witch-hunt’ in the Routledge volume Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century. He has worked as an Associate Tutor for the University of East Anglia, teaching the Introduction to Early Modern Europe and Witchcraft, Magic, and Belief courses. Here he gave seminars, lectures, and marked student work.

He is an experienced tutor of international students working with them for topics from entrance exams to university essay preparation.