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

Lucy Worsley, whose BBC TV series focuses on powerless people, says women continue to bear brunt of men's rage

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."