Period during the first half of 18th-century Great Britain when the consumption of gin increased rapidly, leading to an epidemic of extreme drunkenness.
Gin Pit Colliery
Colliery that operated on the Lancashire Coalfield from the 1840s in Tyldesley Lancashire, England.
Girls Running, Walberswick Pier
Oil on canvas painting by the English impressionist artist Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942).
Glacial erratics
Rocks that differ from the type native to an area.
Gladys Pott
An English anti-suffragist and civil servant, author of The Anti-Suffrage Handbook of Facts, Statistics and Quotations for the Use of Speakers
Glass tax
Two taxes on glass were introduced in England during the 1690s, the first on glass itself and the second on windows.
Golliwog
Character invented by the illustrator Florence Kate Upton which first appeared in The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg (1895), illustrated by her and written by her mother Bertha Upton.
Gollywog
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Gong farmer
Gong farmer (also gongfermor, gongfermour, gong-fayer, gong-fower or gong scourer) is a term that entered use in Tudor England to describe someone who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits; the word gong was used for both a privy and its contents.
Gouache
Opaque watercolour in which the pigments are bound together by glue.
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