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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.

Holloway Brooch

Awarded to women imprisoned in Holloway for militant suffragette activity, by the Women's Social and Political Union.

Holmes Chapel

Built-up area and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East.