Artist and entrepreneur who started a business at the age of 20, manufacturing banners and regalia.
Gertrude Agnew
Biography of socialite Gertrude Vernon, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, who gained prestige and notoriety from her portrait by artist John Singer Sargent.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Collection of eight short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1904.
Gibbeting
Public exhibition of the bodies of executed criminals by hanging them from a gallows-like structure, where they were left to rot, held together with iron hoops.
Gin Craze
Period during the first half of 18th-century Great Britain when the consumption of gin increased rapidly, leading to an epidemic of extreme drunkenness.
Gin Pit Colliery
Colliery that operated on the Lancashire Coalfield from the 1840s in Tyldesley Lancashire, England.
Girls Running, Walberswick Pier
Oil on canvas painting by the English impressionist artist Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942).
Glacial erratics
Rocks that differ from the type native to an area.
Gladys Pott
An English anti-suffragist and civil servant, author of The Anti-Suffrage Handbook of Facts, Statistics and Quotations for the Use of Speakers
Glass tax
Two taxes on glass were introduced in England during the 1690s, the first on glass itself and the second on windows.
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