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

The Hooper, a mysterious Cornish fog

Three women plucking mandrake, by Robert Bateman

770 cc twin-cylinder Royal Ruby, 1913

Mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from Eilean Mòr in 1900

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

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

Jack Sprat, an English nursery rhyme first recorded in 1670

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

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

Slaves waiting for sale, by Eyre Crowe

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

Donald McGill

Short story by H. G. Wells

Reconstructed face of a "real" witch, Lilias Adie

Sponging house, place of temporary confinement for debtors

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

Brocken spectre

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

Female surface labourers at British collieries

World's first stored-program computer

Helen Duncan, last person to be imprisoned under the 1735 Witchcraft Act