History (88 pages found in this category)


Battle of Mons Badonicus

Battle reportedly fought between the Celtic Britons and invading Anglo-Saxons, possibly in 516.

Bedford Colliery explosion

Explosion of firedamp on Friday 13 August 1886 which caused the deaths of 38 miners at Bedford No. 2 Pit in Leigh, on the Lancashire Coalfield.

Beeston Castle

Former royal castle built in the 1220s by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, (1170–1232), on his return from the Fifth Crusade.

Blackbeard

English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of America during the early 18th century.

Bog body

Human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.

British Premonitions Bureau

Organisation set up by the psychiatrist John Barker in 1966 in the wake of the Aberfan disaster. Its aim was to collect premonitions from members of the public in the hope of being able to issue warnings about similar tragedies in the future.

Captain Rudolph

Redirected to Charlotte de Berry.

Castle Hill

Castle Hill is a scheduled ancient monument overlooking Huddersfield in Kirklees, West Yorkshire.

Charlotte de Berry

Probably fictional 17th-century female pirate.

Cheetham Close

Cheetham Close, a hill in the West Pennine Moors above Turton in Lancashire, is the site of an ancient stone circle.