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Disorderly tavern

Sponging house, place of temporary confinement for debtors

Guilotine on stone plinth

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

Thin man and fat woman sat eating

Jack Sprat, an English nursery rhyme first recorded in 1670

Computer

World's first stored-program computer

Woman seated at table

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

Woman's head

Reconstructed face of a "real" witch, Lilias Adie

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Three women plucking mandrake, by Robert Bateman

Ghost descending stairs

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

View out to sea

Mysterious Cornish fog

Ruined church

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

Woman holding a spade

Female surface labourers at British collieries

Postcard

Donald McGill

Woman's portrait

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

Man sitting in car

The Cambro, possibly the cheapest car ever

Magician

Short story by H. G. Wells

Cat with woman in mouth

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

Portrait of plump woman

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

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RW Karma

Side-on view of motorcycle

770 cc twin-cylinder Royal Ruby, 1913

Woman dressed as a toff

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