Witches at their Incantations
Painting by the Italian Baroque artist Salvator Rosa, completed in about 1646.
Miss Winchelsea’s Heart
Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1898, about a snobbish young woman’s rejection of a young man’s advances because of what she perceives to be his absurd surname, Snooks.
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories
Collection of eight short stories written by H. G. Wells, first published in 1911.
The Happy Turning
Collection of nine cheerfully optimistic essays written by H. G. Wells, published in 1945, describing his dreamworld.
Vatersay Raiders
Ten Scottish cottars who were imprisoned in 1908 after illegally setting up homes on the small Hebridean island of Vatersay.
Worsley Man
Head of a sacrificed Romano-British Celt found buried in Chat Moss.
The Butterfly (magazine)
Literary magazine published from 1893 until 1900, with a gap from 1894 to 1899.
The Grisly Folk
Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1921, speculating about the early encounters between Neanderthals and modern man.
The Valley of Spiders
Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1903, about three men who are attacked by giant spiders while pursuing a half-caste girl through a desolate valley.
Garth
Small piece of enclosed ground.