Angels who were widely reported as having defended the British Expeditionary Force against overwhelming odds in the first major engagement of the First World War, the Battle of Mons, on Sunday 23 August 1914.
Anglezarke
Sparsely populated civil parish near Chorley in Lancashire with no village, just scattered farms and the hamlet of White Coppice.
Ann Izzard
Alleged witch attacked by her neighbours in the village of Great Paxton, Huntingdonshire in 1808.
Anne Askew
English writer and Protestant martyr, burnt to death in 1546.
Anne Bonny
Female pirate who operated in the Caribbean during the 18th century.
Anne Jefferies
Young Cornish servant girl endowed with the power to heal and prophetise after being visited by fairies
Anne Vaux
Anne Vaux (c. 1562 – in or after 1637) was a wealthy Catholic recusant. She was a relative of Francis Tresham, one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 to blow up the Houses of Parliament, but had no direct involvement in the plot herself.
Annie Kenney
English working-class suffragette, the poster girl of the Women's Social and Political Union.
Answer to Prayer
The last short story written by H. G. Wells, published in 1937, about an archbishop who develops doubts about his relationship with God.
Antoine Wiertz
Belgian Romantic painter and sculptor. His output, featuring such macabre scenes as violent suicide and premature burial has persuaded some critics to consider it the work of a madman.
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