History (88 pages found in this category)


Robert Keyes

One of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Robert Sample

Early 18th-century pirate.

Roundwood

Roundwood is a wooded peninsula on the River Fal in Cornwall, where there is evidence of occupation and settlement since at least the Iron Age.

Sandal Castle

Ruined medieval castle in Sandal Magna, Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. One of two castles built overlooking the River Calder, it was built by the Warrennes, the Earls of Surrey who were Lords of the Manor of Wakefield.

Scottish tower house

Characteristic style of Scottish castle building in the form of a tall tower, surrounded by one or more wings in L or Z-shaped floor plans in its later development.

Skelmanthorpe flag

Banner made in honour of the victims of the Peterloo Massacre.

Slack Roman Fort

Castellum (fort) in the Roman province of Britannia, which may have been the Cambodunum mentioned as a station on the road between Deva Victrix (Chester) and Eboracum (York).

Thomas Aikenhead

Last person to be executed in Britain for blasphemy, in 1697.

Thomas Tyldesley

Supporter of Charles I and a Royalist commander during the English Civil War.

Udny Castle

Tower house in the parish of Udny, southwest of Pitmedden and northeast of the hamlet of Udny Green, Aberdeenshire