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.
Fernley Observatory
Victorian astronomical observatory in Hesketh Park, Southport.
Alice Molland
Probably the last person to be executed for witchcraft in England.
How They Met Themselves
Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in which a couple in medieval costume are confronted by their doubles.