Sweet Fanny Adams
English phrase that means “nothing at all”, but Fanny was a real person, brutally murdered in 1867.
English, Saying
English
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.
Actor, English, Female
Sabrina (actor)
Norma Ann Sykes, better known as Sabrina, was a 1950s English glamour model who went on to have a minor film career; she is best known for her hourglass figure.
English, Industrialist, Philanthropist, Politician
Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet
British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who, with Ludwig Mond, created the chemical company Brunner Mond.
English, Female, Painter
Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse
English artist, specialist in flower painting; her husband was fellow artist John William Waterhouse.
