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...The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, together with others terrorised the district of Lancashire around Pendle Hill and the Fore...

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...An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh. Thomas Newbigging was born in Glasgow and died in Knutsford, Chesshire, living in between in Rossendale, Pernambuco, and Manche...

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...Twelve tales of everyday life set in the fictional mid-19th century Lancashire village of Thornleigh (a.k.a. Little Crosby, one of the last remaining recusant Catholic villages in England. M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nic...

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...en name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Clog Shop Chronicles was the first and most successful of his works. Set in the fictional 19th-century village of Beckside (said to be somewhere between Manchester and Bolton), the book consists of 12 tales of eve...

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...s E-n en vesperaj lernejoj de kelkaj urboj. Fondis kaj prezidis: E Fed. de Lancashire kaj Chesire (tri jarojn), Sud- Londona EG, Dua-Dimanĉa Rondo, Lo... ...vincajn grupojn E-istajn por komuna agado. Jam en 1908 fondiĝis Fed.-oj en Lancashire kaj Cheshire, Y orkshire, Nord- Oriento, London kaj Mezlando; ka...

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...ng Donald Pleasance. The play's title refers to the wakes week holiday in the fictional town of Hindle and is also a pun on the name of a traditional Lancashire chicken dish. (Summary by Phil Benson)...

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...Located in a part of Cumbria that was once part of Lancashire, the River Duddon rises in the high fells of the Lake District and flows for 25 miles through varied scenery before disappearing into the sands between Millom and Barrow-in-Furness. Wordsworth’s series of sonnets, ...

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...man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be mentioned the famous ‘dead hand,’ which was, in years past, kept at Bryn Hall, Lancashire… Thus the case is related of a woman who, attacked with the smallpox, had this dead hand in bed with her every night for six weeks, and of a poor lad living near Manchester who was touched with it for the cure of s...

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...nd my infant home was a cellar in Preston. I recollect the sound of father’s Lancashire clogs on the street pavement above, as being different in my y...

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...he thriving commercial town of Muddleboro, on the borders of Yorkshire and Lancashire. 6 The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box I am always rather keen ...

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...fine proportions. “That,” said the surgeon, “is a cast from the celebrated Lancashire highwayman, who concealed his profession for some time from his ... ...s of our class, struck me a good deal; and I was repeating it one day to a Lancashire lady, who thereupon informed me, that she had herself lived in t... ...gularly subsiding about sunset, united with the permanent distinc- tion of Lancashire as the very metropolis and citadel of labour, to point the thoug...

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...day afternoon, September 7th, packed his six prisoners on board the cutter Lancashire Lass, and deported them to the neighbouring low-island group of ... ..., ranks next to death, – exile from their native land and friends. And the Lancashire Lass ap- peared to carry away with her into the uttermost parts ...

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...out sunset, could not fail (when united with this permanent distinction of Lancashire as the very metropolis and citadel of labour) to point the thoug... ... explanation is necessary. 43 17 LILLIPUTIAN LANCASTER: the county town of Lancashire, in which Liverpool and Manchester, towns of recent and far grea...

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...fathers; I shall not be anywhere, for I will live no longer. I was born in Lancashire, a country where women die for love. Know you, and give you up? ... ...age for you which allows of no delay. I feared you had already started for Lancashire, but as you are still in Paris I will await your orders at any h... ...ow, and occasionally a sarcasm. I talk to her of the inconsolable women of Lancashire; she makes allusion to Frenchwomen who dig- nify their gastric t...

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...eft. Let Stanley charge with spur of fire – With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland’s central host, 191 Sir Walter Scott ...

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... and we also wore Hessian boots— a crime that could not be forgiven in the Lancashire of that day, because it expressed the double offence of being ar... ...le, by the evidence of secret tears, for the misery of an unknown child in Lancashire. Y et night and day these silent memorials of suffering were acc... ...sa. With Handel I had long been familiar, for the famous chorus singers of Lancashire sang continually at churches the most effective parts from his c... ...chool, he at a very sequestered parsonage on a wild moor (Horwich Moor) in Lancashire. This situation, probably, fed and cherished his melancholy habi...

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...sured us we ought to know the Scottish miner. My private fancy was for the Lancashire op- erative because of his co-operative societies, and because w... ...ashire op- erative because of his co-operative societies, and because what Lancashire thinks to-day England thinks to-morrow… . And also I had never b... ...ire thinks to-day England thinks to-morrow… . And also I had never been in Lancashire. 88 The New Machiavelli By little increments of realisation it ... ...an uncomfortable pause. “I’ d best tell ‘em something of how things are in Lancashire, what with the new machines and all that,” he speculated at last...

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...s: but yet, at last, a frost killed them. And our Camden relates, that, in Lancashire, fishes were digged out of the earth with spades, where no water... ...re an abomi nation to the Jews. But, scholar, there is a fish that they in Lancashire boast very much of, called a char; taken there, and I think the...

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... by Captain Robert Hall (a most gallant officer, one of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and ... ...education for the people is government. They’re begin- ning to see that in Lancashire at last. I ran down to Lancashire for a couple of days on my lan... ... to Lancashire for a couple of days on my landing, and I’m thankful to say Lancashire is preparing to take a step back. Lancashire leads the country. ...

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...Northumbrians and Scotchmen, who, after being made prisoners at Preston in Lancashire, were imprisoned in Newgate and the Marshalsea; and it was his s... ...led family of Stuart in the year 1715, and was made prisoner at Preston in Lancashire. He was of a very ancient family, and somewhat embarrassed fortu... ...cessible to flattery upon this sub- ject,—’ye say right; they are the real Lancashire, and there’s no the like o’ them even at the Mains of Kilmaurs;’... ...k at any object of curiosity which occurred on the march. They were now in Lancashire, when, attracted by a castellated old hall, he left the squadron... ...ing to the knightly family of Bradshaigh, the proprietors of Haighhall, in Lancashire, where, I have been told, the event is recorded on a painted gla...