Louise Yeoman

Yeoman 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.{{Cite web|title=Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Louise Yeoman|url=http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/Research/witches/lyeoman.html|access-date=2020-12-04|website=www.shca.ed.ac.uk}} In 1992 she became curator of early modern manuscripts and cataloguer of the Wodrow Collection at the National Library of Scotland.{{Cite web|title=Louise Yeoman|url=https://www.luath.co.uk/louise-yeoman|access-date=2020-12-04|website=Luath Press|language=en-GB}} 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.

From 2001 to 2003 Yeoman was co-director of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft alongside Julian Goodare.{{Cite web|date=2019-10-29|title=Calls for memorial to Scotland's tortured and executed witches|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/29/calls-for-memorial-to-scotlands-tortured-and-executed-witches|access-date=2020-12-04|website=The Guardian|language=en}}

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 Using 19th-century historical documents, they found a seaweed-covered slab of stone exactly where the documents described: in a group of rocks near the Torryburn railway bridge lay "the great stone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".{{Cite news|date=2014-10-28|title=How to bury a witch|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-29689688|access-date=2020-12-04}}

Yeoman is now a producer and presenter at BBC Radio Scotland, where she works on programmes including Time Travels{{Cite web|title=Time Travels|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094d4hl|access-date=2020-12-04|website=BBC}} and the Witch Hunt podcast series with Susan Morrison.{{Cite web|title=Witch Hunt|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07rn38z|access-date=2020-12-04|website=BBC}} She has spoken out about the courage of accused Scottish witches such as Adie.{{Cite web|last=Dundee|first=University of|title=Face Of 313 Year Old Witch Reconstructed : News|url=https://www.dundee.ac.uk/news/2017/face-of-313-year-old-witch-reconstructed.php|access-date=2020-12-04|website=University of Dundee|language=en}}

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.”{{Cite web|last=Peebles|first=Cheryl|title=Torryburn witch Lilias Adie honoured in village of her persecution|url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/969449/torryburn-witch-lilias-adie-honoured-in-village-of-her-persecution/|access-date=2020-12-04|website=The Courier|language=en-GB}}

• Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563-1736. J Goodare, L Yeoman, L Martin, J Miller. (University of Edinburgh. School of History, Classics and Archaeology, 2010).{{Cite web|title=Louise Yeoman|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iYoSq-wAAAAJ&hl=en|access-date=2021-01-08|website=scholar.google.com}}
• [https://www.luath.co.uk/productsr/reportage-scotland-scottish-history-in-the-voices-of-those-who-were-there-26yfd?rq=reportage%20scotland Reportage Scotland: Scottish History in the Voices of Those Who Were There] (Luath Press, 2005).{{Cite book|title=Reportage Scotland : Scottish history in the voices of those who were there|date=2005|publisher=Luath Press|author=Yeoman, Louise |isbn=1-84282-051-6|location=Edinburgh|oclc=63674007}}
• "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).

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• [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iYoSq-wAAAAJ&hl=en Dr Louise Yeoman's Google Scholar record]

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