Society (304 pages found in this category)


Ordinance of Labourers 1349

Largely ineffective royal proclamation intended to address the acute labour shortage in the wake of the Black Death.

Overtoun Bridge

Bridge over the Overtoun Burn on the western approach road to Overtoun House, near Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland that has attracted international media attention because of the number of dogs that have reportedly leapt from it, often to their deaths after landing on the rocks below.

Park Hospital

Redirected to Trafford General Hospital.

Patrick Milne of Crimonmogate

Wealthy Scottish merchant, politician, and landowner; commissioned Aberdeen architects to design two houses.

Pendine Museum of Speed

Museum dedicated to the use of Pendine Sands for land speed record attempts. It opened in 1996 in the village of Pendine, on the south coast of Wales, and was owned and run by Carmarthenshire County Council.

Pest House

Post-medieval forerunner of the isolation hospital.

Peter Beatty

English racehorse owner, businessman and aristocrat

Phantasmascope

Redirected to phenakistoscope.

Phenakistoscope

Optical toy producing the illusion of moving images, popular during the Victorian era.

Pillory

Device used to publicly humiliate those found guilty of minor offences.