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Sarah Baker

English actor, theatre manager, and one of the most successful self-made women of her time.

Sarah Chapman

One of the leaders of the matchgirls' strike of 1888.

Sarah Malcolm

British triple murderer executed in March 1733, sketched by William Hogarth as she was waiting her execution.

Sarah Mapp

18th-century bone-setter, nicknamed Crazy Sally.

Sawney Bean

Legendary 16th-century Scottish cannibal.

Scammonden

Pennine village that was flooded in the 1960s when Scammonden Dam and the M62 trans-Pennine motorway were constructed.

Scammonden Reservoir

Reservoir in the South Pennines supplying water to Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.

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Scold’s Bridle

Device used to punish women whose language was considered to be unacceptable.

Scoot-Mobile

Three-wheeled motor vehicle the prototype for which was produced in 1947. The body was a modified aircraft fuel tank, and the wheels also came from an aircraft.