Crime (1581 pages found in this category)


Potts of Leeds

Company founded in 1833 in Leeds, England to make domestic timepieces , which expanded into the manufacture and repair of public clocks.

Power-loom riots

Rioting by hand loom weavers in 1826 in Lancashire, England, protesting against the introduction of the much more efficient power looms.

Powerdrive

Three-wheeled microcar produced from 1955 until 1957.

Powis Almshouses

Almshouses in Chepstow paid for by a bequest from Thomas Powis in 1716, intended to house six poor men and six poor women.

Powrie

Redirected to Dunter.

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Group of English artists formed in 1848 to counter what they saw as the corrupting influence of the late-Renaissance painter Raphael.

Predictions of Isaac Bickerstaff

Pseudonym used by the satirist Jonathan Swift in a hoax predicting the "infallible" death of John Partridge, a well-known 18th-century astrologer and almanac maker, on 29 March 1708.

Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball

Oil on canvas painting by the English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1853.

Presbytery

Part of the chancel in a Christian church housing the altar, or a residence for Roman Catholic priests.

Priest hole

Secret hiding places in the homes of prominent Catholics to hide priests from persecution.