Sponging house, place of temporary confinement for debtors

The Hooper, a mysterious Cornish fog

Three women plucking mandrake, by Robert Bateman

Donald McGill

Vesta Tilley, one of the most famous male impersonators of her era

770 cc twin-cylinder Royal Ruby, 1913

Slaves waiting for sale, by Eyre Crowe

"There Was a Crooked Man"

1896 Arnold Benz Motor Carriage, the first car to be caught speeding

The pirate Captain Kidd, gibbeted in 1701

Circe, subject of several paintings by J. M. Waterhouse

Halifax gibbet, a guillotine that predates the French version by 200 years

World's first stored-program computer

Suffragette campaign against the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913

Female surface labourers at British collieries

Mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from Eilean Mòr in 1900

Alloway Kirk, the Inspiration for Robert Burns's poem Tam o' Shanter

Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, the most famous ghost photograph ever taken

Reconstructed face of a "real" witch, Lilias Adie

Brocken spectre

Short story by H. G. Wells

Annie Kenney, working-class suffragette and poster girl for the movement