Riots & uprisings (1575 pages found in this category)


Renishaw Hall

Country house to the west of Renishaw village in Derbyshire England, home to the Sitwell family since the early 17th century.

Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928

Act of the UK Parliament that gave equal voting rights to men and women.

Reredos

Large ornamented wall, screen, or other structure placed behind the altar in a Christian church.

Restoration style

Architectural style popular during the reign of King Charles II of England (1660–1685)

Resurrectionists

Those who exhumed the bodies of the recently deceased during the 18th and 19th centuries to provide cadavers to anatomists for their research.

Retable

Redirected to reredos.

Revenant

Spirit of a dead person returned to visit the living, the common conception of a ghost.

Rhenish Tower, Lynmouth

Grade II listed folly built on the sea front at Lynmouth, Devon in about 1860.

RHS Garden Bridgewater

The Royal Horticultural Society's first new garden since 2003, opening in 2020 in Worsley, in the City of Salford.

Rhubarb Triangle

Forced rhubarb growing area in West Yorkshire, England between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell.