Louise Yeoman
Louise Yeoman (born 1968) is a historian and broadcaster specialising in the Scottish witch hunts and 17th century Scottish religious beliefs. Career. 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. In 1992 she became curator of early modern manuscripts and cataloguer of the Wodrow Collection at the National Library of Scotland. 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 2001-2003 Yeoman was co-director of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft alongside Julian Goodare. 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 Using 19th-century historical documents, they found a seaweed-covered slab of stone exactly where the documents described: in a group of rocks near the Torryburn railway bridge lay "the great stone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". Yeoman is now a producer and presenter at BBC Radio Scotland, where she works on programmes including Time Travels and the Witch Hunt podcast series with Susan Morrison. She has spoken out about the courage of accused Scottish witches such as Adie. 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.” Louise