Act of Parliament making it illegal for the first time in England and Wales for a man to engage in sexual intercourse with any female he knew to be his grand-daughter, daughter, sister, half-sister, or mother.
Quatermass and the Pit
British television science-fiction serial from the BBC, broadcast in 1958/1959.
Queen’s House
Former royal residence near Greenwich Palace, built between 1616 and 1635.
Quoin
Any external angle or corner of a structure.
Rag pudding
Savoury dish once popular in the mill towns of northwest England.
Rag, Tag and Bobtail
BBC children’s television programme that ran from 1953 until 1965 as the Thursday programme in the weekly cycle of Watch With Mother.
Ralph of Coggeshall
Abbot of Coggeshall Abbey and a major contributor to the early history of England known as the Chronicon Anglicanum, in which he included several anecdotes that have become folk tales.
Ramsden’s Shakerley Collieries
Ramsden’s Shakerley Collieries was a coal mining company operating from the mid-19th century in Shakerley, Tyldesley in Lancashire, England.
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Ghost story by M. R. James first published in 1929, about a locked room containing the remains of a gibbeted former owner.
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