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.
Abbot, English, Historian
English
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
English, Saying
Sweet Fanny Adams
English phrase that means “nothing at all”, but Fanny was a real person, brutally murdered in 1867.
English, Female, Witch
Elizabeth Francis, witch
English woman tried three times for witchcraft, hanged in 1579 for bewitchment and murder by witchcraft.
English, Female, Witch
Agnes Waterhouse, witch
Elderly Essex woman convicted and hanged for witchcraft at Chelmsford in 1566.
English, Pamphlet, Witchcraft
The examination and confession of certaine Wytches at Chensforde
First pamphlet describing witchcraft trials in England; it covers the testimony of witches at Chelmsford Assizes in 1566.
English, Landscape architect, Male
Thomas Hayton Mawson
Early 20th-century garden designer, landscape architect and town planner.
Coal mining, English, Museum, Yorkshire
Caphouse Colliery
Ex-colliery in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
English, Female, Yorkshire
Emma Lister-Kaye
Colliery owner in Overton near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1871 until 1905.
