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
Elderly Torryburn woman who died after confessing to witchcraft; her face was reconstructed from photos of her skull.
Perhaps the best-known of the ghost ships that reportedly haunt British waters.
Mysterious cloud of mist that often hovered over the Cowloe Rock, near Sennen Cove in Cornwall, warning of approaching bad weather.
Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1897, about a near collision between a comet from outer space and the Earth.
Set of 7th-century ecclesiastical laws applied to women – and only women – perfoming acts such as divination, raising storms, or murder by the use of magic.
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