Bessie Wentworth
English music-hall singer and comic entertainer, 1873–1901, best known for her coon songs.
The Woodentops
BBC children’s television programme that ran from 1955 until 1957 as the Friday programme in the weekly cycle of Watch With Mother.
The Singing Butler
Painting by the Scottish artist Jack Vettriano (1951–2025), reproductions of which make it the best-selling art print in the UK.
Norman Cornish
English miner and artist (1919–2014), whose style and subject matter have been compared to L. S. Lowry.
Joan Wytte
Alleged Cornish witch whose skeleton was put on public display.
Madge Mitchell
Scottish painter specialising in portraits, seascapes, and harbour and beach scenes (1892–1974).
Cleopatra (painting)
Painting by John William Waterhouse.
Witch trials in early modern England
History of witch trials in England from the 15th to the 18th century.
Rytecraft Scootacar
Fairground dodgem car converted to road use by the British Motorboat Manufacturing Company, produced from 1934 until 1940.
1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak
Typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen, Scotland traced to contaminated corned beef from Argentina.