BBC television programme for children broadcast from 1950 until 1956.
Whisky Galore (novel)
Novel by Compton Mackenzie based on the real-life 1941 sinking of a ship carrying a large quantity of whisky, and the local residents' attempts to recover it and hide it from the authorities.
White Barrow
Neolithic long barrow on Salisbury Plain.
White City, Stretford
Former botanical gardens that hosted the largest art exhibition ever held in the UK, now a retail park.
White Cross Army
Organisation set up in 1883 by the social campaigner and author Ellice Hopkins, together with the Bishop of Durham, to promote “social purity”.
White poppy
The white poppy was introduced in 1933 by the British Women's Cooperative Guild as a pacifist alternative to the Royal British Legion's annual red poppy appeal.
Whitley Lower
Village near Thornhill in Kirklees, West Yorkshire.
Whitley Upper
Township in the ancient parish of Kirkheaton, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Whole trial and examination of Mrs. Mary Hicks and her daughter Elizabeth
Pamphlet purporting to tell the story of Mary Hicks, executed for witchcraft in 1716.
Wife selling
Way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage by mutual agreement that probably began in the late 17th century, when divorce was a practical impossibility for all but the very wealthiest.
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