Any kind of roasted and crushed cereal moistened by being mixed with water or milk.
Guy Fawkes Day
Annual celebration of the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Halifax Gibbet
Early guillotine, or decapitating machine, used in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It was probably installed during the 16th century as an alternative to beheading by axe or sword.
Hamlet (place)
Rural settlement smaller than a village.
Hammersmith Ghost
Early 19th-century hoax that reinforced the standard white-sheeted ghost look, and set a legal precedent for self-defence.
Hanged, drawn and quartered
Statutory penalty in England from 1352 for men convicted of high treason.
Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies
Annual directory of prostitutes working in Georgian London, published from 1757 until 1795.
Harry Liston
English comedian and actor.
Heber Hart
English judge and jurist (1865–1948) who specialised in commercial and banking law.
Henry Goodcole
Chaplain of Newgate Prison and author of criminal biographies, the most important of which is that of Elizabeth Sawyer.