Societies (1579 pages found in this category)


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.

The Apple

Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1896, about a schoolmaster who comes into possession of an apple from the Tree of Knowledge.