St Mary’s Church, Seavington St Mary
Redundant church in Seavington St Mary, Somerset, daing from the 13th century.
Portwey Hospital
Grade II listed former workhouse and hospital in Weymouth, Dorset, redeveloped in the early 1990s for residential use.
Astomi
Mythological race of people without mouths, who survived by inhaling air and scents through their nostrils.
St Peter’s Church, Boughton Monchelsea
Active Anglican parish church in he village of Broughton Monchelsea, Kent, a Grade II* listed building.
Mary Lakeland
English woman executed for witchcraft in Ipswich in 1645, one of the few people in England to have been executed by burning after a conviction of witchcraft.
Manchester Art Museum
Educational venture undertaken by the philanthropist Thomas Horsfall, inaugurated in 1877. It closed in 1953, and most of its collection is now in the possession of the Manchester Art Gallery.
Great Recoinage of 1696
Attempt by the English government under William III to replace the hammered silver coins that made up most of the coinage then in circulation with coins with milled edges, to prevent clipping.
The Wizard (Comic)
Weekly British story paper published from 1922 until 1963, relaunched in 1970 for a further 435 issues.
Early Closing Association
19th-century movement in support of the closure of shops on Saturday afternoons.
Marion Walker
Glaswegian woman active from 1597–1614 in highlighting the miscarriages of justice perpetrated during a Scottish witch-hunt.