The Jilting of Jane
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.
Alice Gooderidge
Staffordshire woman convicted of witchcraft in 1596 on the false testimony of an 14-year-old boy.
Katherine Harley
Suffragist who in 1913 organised the Great Pilgrimage, a march along six routes to converge on Hyde Park, London, where a rally in support of women’s suffrage was held.
Donald McGill
English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with the genre of saucy postcards, particularly associated with the seaside.
Pierre Adolphe Valette
French Impressionist painter who taught at the Manchester School of Art from 1906 until 1920.
Adele Meyer
Adele Meyer, Lady Meyer, (1862/3–1930) was an English socialite, social reformer, philanthopist and suffragist.
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
Ghost said to haunt Raynham Hall in Norfolk, and the subject of perhaps the most famous ghost photograph ever taken.
Herring girls
Women and girls who travelled across Scotland to gut and pack fish in the fishing ports on the east coast of Britain.
Euphame MacCalzean
Wealthy Scottish heiress and member of the gentry convicted of witchcraft. A key figure in the North Berwick witchcraft trials of 1590–1591.
Varney the Vampire
Main character in a series of penny dreadfuls produced from 1845 until 1847. The stories introduced many of the ideas represented in modern vampire stories, such as Varley’s fangs leaving two puncture wounds on the necks of his victims.