The Hooper, a mysterious Cornish fog

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

Reconstructed face of a "real" witch, Lilias Adie

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

Slaves waiting for sale, by Eyre Crowe

Short story by H. G. Wells

1896 Arnold Benz Motor Carriage which Walter Arnold was driving when he received the first speeding ticket

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

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

Female surface labourers at British collieries

770 cc twin-cylinder Royal Ruby, 1913

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

World's first stored-program computer

Jack Sprat, an English nursery rhyme first recorded in 1670

Donald McGill

Three women plucking mandrake, by Robert Bateman

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

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

RW Karma

Sponging house, place of temporary confinement for debtors

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