Swiss-born British Romantic artist (1741–1825), who established a reputation for his paintings depicting the horrifying and fantastic.
Henry Garnet
English Jesuit priest executed for his complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Henry Goodcole
Chaplain of Newgate Prison and author of criminal biographies, the most important of which is that of Elizabeth Sawyer.
Herbert Campbell
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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