Biography of socialite Gertrude Vernon, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, who gained prestige and notoriety from her portrait by artist John Singer Sargent.
Gibbeting
Public exhibition of the bodies of executed criminals by hanging them from a gallows-like structure, where they were left to rot, held together with iron hoops.
Gin Craze
Period during the first half of 18th-century Great Britain when the consumption of gin increased rapidly, leading to an epidemic of extreme drunkenness.
Gladys Pott
An English anti-suffragist and civil servant, author of The Anti-Suffrage Handbook of Facts, Statistics and Quotations for the Use of Speakers
Glass tax
Two taxes on glass were introduced in England during the 1690s, the first on glass itself and the second on windows.
Golliwog
Character invented by the illustrator Florence Kate Upton which first appeared in The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg (1895), illustrated by her and written by her mother Bertha Upton.
Gollywog
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Great Gold Robbery
The Great Gold robbery of 1855 occurred when a routine shipment of gold bullion and coins was stolen from a train in transit between London Bridge and Folkestone, on its way to Paris.
Great Pilgrimage
March in 1913 by suffragists from all over England Wales to London, in support of the campaign for votes for women.
Great Recoinage of 1696
Attempt by the English government under William III to replace the hammered silver coins that made up most of the coinage then in circulation with coins with milled edges, to prevent clipping.