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Elizabeth Brownrigg

18th-century murderer who tortured one of her young domestic servants to death.

System of beliefs and practices intended to establish communication with the spirits of the dead.

Educational charity founded in 1884, offering training in mediumship and various divinatory tools.

Comic monologue by Bert Lee and R. P. Weston, first performed by Ernest Hastings in 1922 and revived by Stanley Holloway in 1938.

English judge and jurist (1865–1948) who specialised in commercial and banking law.

Act of Parliament making it easier for local authorities to clear slums, and obliging them to rehome the tenants of such areas.

Society founded in London in 1826 to publish cheap and accessible works on scientific and artistic subjects.

Ten Scottish cottars who were imprisoned in 1908 after illegally setting up homes on the small Hebridean island of Vatersay.

Largest university museum in the UK, founded in 1867.

Young girl at the centre of a major prostitution scandal in 1885 that led to the age of consent for females being raised from 13 to 16.