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.
George Tutill
Artist and entrepreneur who started a business at the age of 20, manufacturing banners and regalia.
Flora MacDonald
Jacobite heroine remembered for her role in the escape of the Young Pretender to the thrones of England and Scotland, Charles Edward Stewart, commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
Gunpowder Plot
Attempt in 1605 to assassinate King James I and re-establish a Catholic monarchy by blowing up the House of Lords.
Atterbury Plot
Conspiracy named after Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, aimed at restoring the House of Stuart to the throne of Great Britain.
1996 Manchester bombing
Attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on Saturday 15 June 1996, when they detonated a 15,000 kg bomb in the centre of Manchester, England.
Henry Garnet
English Jesuit priest executed for his complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
British Premonitions Bureau
Organisation set up by the psychiatrist John Barker in 1966 in the wake of the Aberfan disaster. Its aim was to collect premonitions from members of the public in the hope of being able to issue warnings about similar tragedies in the future.
Crathes Castle
Classic Scottish tower house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, built in the 16th century.
Dick Turpin
English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. In the popular imagination he is best remembered for a fictional 200-mile ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess.