The Hammerpond Park Burglary
Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1894, about a burglary that begins badly but is eventually successfully concluded.
Gentleman’s Journal
Published between 1692 and 1694, precursor to the modern magazine.
The Company of Undertakers
Engraving by William Hogarth satirising 18th-century physicians.
Gwennap Pit
Amphitheatre in which John Wesley preached between 1762 and 1789, occupying a depression that was possibly formed by the subsidence of underground mine workings.
Shoddy and mungo
Manufacture of shoddy and mungo, an early form of recycling, was an important industry in the Heavy Woollen district of West Yorkshire.
Perran Foundry
Cornish foundry established in 1791 to supply steam-engine pumps and heavy machinery to mines, waterworks and ironworks.
In the Modern Vein
Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1894, about a minor poet’s infatuation with a girl he meets at a tennis party.
Pollock and the Porroh Man
Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1895, about a murdered witch-doctor whose severed head haunts the man responsible for his death.
A Catastrophe
Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1895 about a struggling shopkeeper saved from bankruptcy by an unexpected legacy.
Girls Running, Walberswick Pier
Oil on canvas painting by the English impressionist artist Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942).