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John Collier (caricaturist)

English caricaturist and satirical poet (1708–1786).

Oil painting by the English artist Evelyn de Morgan, created in 1903.

Manufacture of shoddy and mungo, an early form of recycling, was an important industry in the Heavy Woollen district of West Yorkshire.

Reputed witch whose corpse kept reappearing from its grave until it was covered by a large boulder.

One of the earliest motorised scooters.

Nursery rhyme about the best-known of the British sleep spirits, first published in 1841.

18th-century English cook, author of The British Housewife.

Essay by H. G. Wells first published in 1894, about Professor Gargoyle’s regret for the decline in swearing.

Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1894, about an episode in the romantic life of a young maidservant who is engaged to be married.

Staffordshire woman convicted of witchcraft in 1596 on the false testimony of an 14-year-old boy.