Post-medieval forerunner of the isolation hospital.
Peter Beatty
English racehorse owner, businessman and aristocrat
Peterloo Massacre
Cavalry charge on 16 August 1819 into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 gathered at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England to demand the reform of parliamentary representation
Phantasmagoria
18th-century ghost show developed by the impresario Paul de Philipsthal, also known as Philidor.
Phantasmascope
Redirected to phenakistoscope.
Phenakistoscope
Optical toy producing the illusion of moving images, popular during the Victorian era.
Piano nobile
Main floor of a Palladian or Georgian building.
Picquot ware
Type of tableware made from a magnesium-aluminium alloy called magnailium.
Piece Hall
Rare example of a large-scale cloth hall – an exchange for trading woollen and worsted cloth "pieces" – that is largely intact.
Pierre Adolphe Valette
French Impressionist painter who taught at the Manchester School of Art from 1906 until 1920.
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