The Star
Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1897, about a near collision between a comet from outer space and the Earth.
Liber Poenitentialis
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.
Antoine Wiertz
Belgian Romantic painter and sculptor. His output, featuring such macabre scenes as violent suicide and premature burial has persuaded some critics to consider it the work of a madman.
Ophelia
Series of three paintings by John William Waterhouse, reflecting his interpretation of Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Short story by H. G. Wells about a man who is granted the power to do anything merely by willing it to happen.
The Danaides
Oil on canvas painting by John William Waterhouse, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1906.
The Stolen Bacillus
Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1894, about an anarchist who steals what he believes to be a tube of cholera bacteria to poison London’s water supply, but which is in reality harmless.
Penelope and the Suitors
Oil on canvas painting by the English artist John William Waterhouse, commissioned by the Aberdeen Art Gallery and completed in 1912.
Angels of Mons
Angels who were widely reported as having defended the British Expeditionary Force against overwhelming odds in the first major engagement of the First World War, the Battle of Mons, on Sunday 23 August 1914.
Salamanca
Salamanca, designed and built by Matthew Murray in 1812, was the world’s first commercially successful steam locomotive.