Known only as Elizabeth, she was installed in the rood loft above the chancel of the priory of Leominster, in Hereford, by its prior in the late 15th or early 16th century.
Home Chimes
British magazine published from 1884 until 1894, precursor to popular fiction magazines.
Hoober Stand
Monumental tower in the form of a tapering pyramid topped with a hexagonal lantern, named for the ancient wood in which it was erected.
Horace Henry Cauty
English painter of genre, landscape and historical scenes (c. 1846 –1909).
Horse Gin
Horse-driven engine used in lead and shallow coal mines.
Hortus Sanitatis
First natural history encyclopedia, published by Jacob Meydenbach in Mainz, Germany in 1491.
Housing Act 1930
Act of Parliament making it easier for local authorities to clear slums, and obliging them to rehome the tenants of such areas.
How Do You View?
British television's first comedy series, broadcast between 1949 and 1952.
How They Met Themselves
Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in which a couple in medieval costume are confronted by their doubles.
Howe Bridge
Suburb of Atherton in Greater Manchester, built as a model mining village in the 1870s by the Fletchers.
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