Pierre Adolphe Valette
French Impressionist painter who taught at the Manchester School of Art from 1906 until 1920.
French Impressionist painter who taught at the Manchester School of Art from 1906 until 1920.
Adele Meyer, Lady Meyer, (1862/3–1930) was an English socialite, social reformer, philanthopist and suffragist.
Ghost said to haunt Raynham Hall in Norfolk, and the subject of perhaps the most famous ghost photograph ever taken.
Women and girls who travelled across Scotland to gut and pack fish in the fishing ports on the east coast of Britain.
Wealthy Scottish heiress and member of the gentry convicted of witchcraft. A key figure in the North Berwick witchcraft trials of 1590–1591.
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.
Generally considered to be the UK’s first National Health Service hospital, and the first in the world to offer free healthcare to all.
Savoury dish once popular in the mill towns of northwest England.
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, completed in 1902