English comedian and actor who appeared in music hall, burlesques and musical comedies during the Victorian era.
Heriot
Feudal form of inheritance tax that persisted until 1922.
Hermia and Lysander
Watercolour painting created in 1870 by the English illustrator and miniature portrait painter John Simmons.
Herring girls
Women and girls who travelled across Scotland to gut and pack fish in the fishing ports on the east coast of Britain.
Hey Diddle Diddle
Best-known nonsense verse in the English language, which gave rise to the phrase "over the moon".
Hickory Dickory Dock
English nursery rhyme the earliest known version of which appears in 1784, probably a counting rhyme.
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Hob Moor
A local nature reserve and ancient common in York
Hogarth’s Act 1735
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain to give copyright protections to the producers of engravings.
Hollingworth Lake
Hollingworth Lake was built as the main water source for the Rochdale Canal.
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