Act of Parliament to disenfranchise all government officials involved in the collection or management of statutory duties.
Cucking Stool
Chair used as a punishment for those accused of offences such as drunkenness, sexual impropriety or dishonest trading.
Dancing mania
Also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St. John’s Dance and St. Vitus’s Dance, a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time.
Davyhulme Military Hospital
Redirected to Trafford General Hospital.
De heretico comburendo
Law passed in 1401 during the reign of King Henry IV, allowing heretics to be burned alive.
Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act 1907
Act of Parliament making it legal for the first time in the United Kingdom for a man to marry his dead wife's sister.
Diseases Prevention (Metropolis) Act 1883
Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in 1883 to deal with London's sick poor.
Donald McGill
English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with the genre of saucy postcards, particularly associated with the seaside.
Donner Party
Group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, where some of them resorted to cannibalism to survive.
Dorothy Legh
Born Dorothy Egerton (1565–1639), also known as Dorothy Brereton, Lady of the Manor of Worsley, was a coal owner and benefactor of Ellenbrook Chapel near her home in Worsley, Lancashire.