High-performance V8 version of the British Rootes Group’s Sunbeam Alpine roadster, designed in part by the American car designer and racing driver Carroll Shelby and produced from 1964 until 1967.
Sunny Stories
British children’s magazine intended to appeal to both boys and girls. It began as Sunny Stories for Little Folk in 1926, edited and written by Enid Blyton, although she was only credited as the editor.
Supermarionation
Style of puppetry created in the 1960s and used extensively in the action-adventure puppet series of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
Swarth
Redirected to Fetch.
Sweeney Todd
Fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the Victorian penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls (1846–1847).
Sweet Fanny Adams
English phrase that means "nothing at all", but Fanny was a real person, brutally murdered in 1867.
Swinton Pottery
Founded in 1745 and renamed the Rockingham Works in 1826, the company produced fine porcelainware until 1842.
Sympathetic magic
Basis of all magic according to the anthropologist and folklorist Sir James George Frazer, founded on the idea that things act on each other because they are linked by invisible and secret bonds.
Tackler
Supervisor in a textile factory responsible for the working of a number of power looms and the weavers who operated them.
Taghairm
Scottish Celtic practice similar to necromancy, in which spirits or demons are conjured up to help achieve some end, or to foretell the future.
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