Internationally recognised authority on folk dancing and its related music and folk customs.
Wee Willie Winkie
Nursery rhyme about the best-known of the British sleep spirits, first published in 1841.
White City, Stretford
Former botanical gardens that hosted the largest art exhibition ever held in the UK, now a retail park.
William Harrison Ainsworth
English historical novelist, at one time considered a rival to Charles Dickens.
William Holman Hunt
English painter (1827–1910), one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
William James Neatby
Ceramic designer and artist born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, who trained as an architect but changed career and went to work for Burmantofts Pottery.
William Wailes
English 19th-century stained-glass artist, one of the most accomplished of his generation.
William Waterhouse
English artist; father of John William Waterhouse
Witches at their Incantations
Painting by the Italian Baroque artist Salvator Rosa, completed in about 1646.
Yard with Lunatics
Small oil-on-tinplate painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, produced between 1793 and 1794.