English history (25 pages found in this category)


Robert Keyes

One of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Skelmanthorpe flag

Banner made in honour of the victims of the Peterloo Massacre.

Thomas Tyldesley

Supporter of Charles I and a Royalist commander during the English Civil War.

Waldegrave Conspiracy

Supposed plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I and reintroduce Catholicism to England.

Westhoughton Mill

Former cotton mill built in 1804, the target of a Luddite attack in 1812.