William Harrison Ainsworth
English historical novelist, at one time considered a rival to Charles Dickens.
English, Male, Writer
English
English music-hall singer and comedian.
English, Greater Manchester, Museum
Imperial War Museum North
Museum in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. One of five branches of the Imperial War Museum, it explores the impact of modern conflicts on people and society.
English, Painting
A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery
1766 painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, depicting a lecturer giving a demonstration of an orrery.
English, Female, Illustrator, Painter
Adelaide Claxton
English painter and illustrator who developed a popular line in ghost paintings during the 1870s. Later in her life she turned her attention to corrective garments such as Claxton’s Ear Caps.
English, Female, Suffragette
Annie Kenney
English working-class suffragette, the poster girl of the Women’s Social and Political Union.
English comedian and actor.
Abbot, English, Historian
Ralph of Coggeshall
Abbot of Coggeshall Abbey and a major contributor to the early history of England known as the Chronicon Anglicanum, in which he included several anecdotes that have become folk tales.
English, Female, Witch
Elleine Smithe, witch
Essex woman convicted and hanged for witchcraft in 1579.
English, Pamphlet, Witchcraft
A Detection of Damnable Driftes
Sixteenth-century pamphlet describing prominent Chelmsford witchcraft trials against Elizabeth Francis and others
