Scottish Celtic practice similar to necromancy, in which spirits or demons are conjured up to help achieve some end, or to foretell the future.
Tales of Space and Time
Collection of three short stories and two novellas by H. G. Wells, first published in 1899.
Tam o’ Shanter
Narrative poem by the Scottish poet Robert Burns, first published in 1791.
Tammy Hall
Former piece or cloth hall, a specialist market for selling worsted cloth. Paid for by subscription, the hall opened in 1778.
Tankersley ironstone bed
Named from its outcrop at Tankersley near Barnsley in South Yorkshire.
Tapputi
Babylonian chemist and a royal perfume maker.
Taxes on knowledge
Long-running campaign against duties on newspapers, their advertising content and the paper they were printed on.
Tempera
Term applied to any paint in which the pigment is dissolved in water and mixed with an organic gum or glue.
The Alchymist
Oil painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, first exhibited in 1771.
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal
Account of a ghostly visitation said to have occurred in Canterbury in 1705.
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