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Adventure
Attempt to discover an Northern Passage to the East
Discovery of the sources of the Nile
On early effort of balloonist to reach record heights
People who have survived after being buried in the snow
The 1744 mutiny of the Black Watch regiment
The doubling of the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco da Game
The explorations of Henry Hudson
The fate of Captain Allen Gardiner
The last of the Arctic Voyagers
The Retreat from Caubul, 1842
The story of the Koh-i-noor diamond
The story of the Resolute
The taking of Seringapatam
Welsh tales connected with the Battle of Bosworth
Custom
s & Traditions
Ballad Singers and Grub Street Poets
Requesting one's heart upon death
Bull running in England
Cider Making
Curious notions and practices respecting the human heart of a deceased hero
Custom of keeping running footmen
Drinking customs of various nations
English manners of old times
Fairlop Oak Festival
Falconry in medieval England
Fox Hunting
Feast of the Ingathering
Funeral Garlands
Halloween
Holy Wells
Lamp lighting and watchmen of old London
London fashionable life
London street nomenclature
Hawking in the olden times
Hock-tide traditions of mediaeval England
Holy Wells
Hunting practices of the court of James I
Jam and jelly making
Marriage arrangements in old times
Midsummer Day traditions
Minstrels Festival at Tutbury
Ministerial Fish Dinners
Old English Christmas fare
Old English Manners
Old suburban tea-gardens
On the naval ceremony performed when crossing the equator
Painting of faces by women in Elizabethan times
Plough Monday -first Monday after Twelfth Day
:
Punch and punch bowls
Queen Elizabeth's Day
Shrove Tuesday
Spurs and Spur-money
St. Distaff's day
St. Paul's day and what its weather foretells for the year to come
St. Swithin's day
St. Valentine's day customs
Superstitions and Sayings Regarding the Moon and the Weather
Swearing on the Horns
The custom of hoarding or burying money
The Bartholomew Fair
The biting of the thumb as an insult
The folklore of playing cards
The history of Foxhunting
The lifestyle of a county squire
The Lord Mayor's show
The nature of doctors in the late 1600s
The origin of Christmas carols
The origin of playing practical jokes on April 1st
The Shrewsbury show
The Three Magi
The Tribute of Roses, a May-day Custom
The way shrews were tamed long ago
Toasting a drink to someone's health
Touching the King's Evil
Turnspits & Turnspit Dogs
Twelfth Day festivities
Washing tallies
Wedding Rings
Winter sport of skating
Folklore
& Legends
Ancient and modern giants
Church bell legends
Creslow Pastures. A Ghost Story
Dragons and dragon slayers
Falsehoods and forgeries in connection with antiquities
Family omens of death
Ghost story about Lady Russell
Glastonbury thorn legend
Household Superstitions
Isaac Newton and the legend of the falling apple
Legendary account of Gerbert, Magician and Pope
Legendary history of King Arthur
Legend of Don Roderick
Legend of St. Christopher
Legend of the Black Ribbon
Legend of the Glastonbury thorn
Legend of the green lady of Thorpe Hall
Legend of the Seven Sleepers
Legend of the weather on St. Paul's Day on the nature of the year to come
Legands of the Cross Christ was crucified on
Legends related to rats
Legends surrounding the death of Joan D'Ark
Littlecote legend
London legend of the clock which struck thirteen, and saved a man's life
Mermaids
Mr. Fox: an old English nursery story
On the ability to pick discern your future husband of St. Agnes' Eve
On the appearance of the ghost of Bishop Henry Burgwash
Prophecies of the death of noted people
Resistance to Fire
Seventh sons and their seventh sons
Sighting of Sea Serpents by ships
Spectre-dogs: the spirits of evil persons, who have been transformed into dogs
St. Mark's Eve superstition of church porch sitting to see who will die that year
St. Patrick's Purgatory
Superstitions and sayings regarding the moon and the weather
Superstitions about diseases
Superstitions about new-born children
Superstitions, sayings, &c., concerning death
Superstitious related to certain animals
The creation of baronets
The dream of the good King Gontran
The history of fortune telling with cards
The legend of the Black Ribbon
The legendary history of St. Brendan
The legendary history of St. George
The legendary history of St. Patrick
The legend of Wayland Smith
The Lyttelton ghost story
The Nine Worthies of London
The pig faced lady
The prophecies of Nostradamus
The Wynyard ghost story
The wandering Jew who had witnessed the Crucifixion
The witches of Belvior
Touching the King's Evil
Welsh Tales Connected With the Battle of Bosworth
History
A Herefordshire lady in the time of the civil war
Account of the sale of the book
Boccaccio's Decamerone in 1471
Archery in England
Battle between the H.M.S. Serapis and USS Bon Homme Richard
Beginning of the English Civil War
Burning of the Sarah Sands
Burning of the Tower of London in 1841
Cannibalism in England
Capture and Defense of Gibraltar by the British
Capture of Granada in 1492 from the Moors
Casting of the Stools in St. Giles's Kirk - The start of the English civil war
Charles VII of France and Joan D'arc
Conversion of the Britons to Christianity
Council of Trent
Cromwell's dissolution op the rump parliament
Decline and End of the Jacobite Party
Destruction of the Bastille
Discovery of the sources of the Nile
Dismemberment of Poland in 1772
Discovery of America by Columbus
Earthquakes in England
Edmund Burke's dagger-scene in the house of commons
Emancipation of British slaves
Establishment of the first 'cab' service in Paris in 1662
Expiration of the Cornish language
Expulsion of the Jews from England
First Dismemberment of Poland
Foundation of the Order of the Garter
Gustavus Adolphus battles in Germany to end the 30 years war
Great winter frosts in Europe
Imprisonment of Louis XI by the Duke of Burgundy in 1468
Invasion panic of 1744
Landing of Caesar in Britain
Landing of George I in England
Landing of the Prince of Orange at Torbay in 1688
Laying of the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic
Mug House riots of 1716
Mutinies of 1797
Nicolo Gabrini attempt to reform 14th century Rome
Old Suburban Tea Gardens
Plugging Lobsters' Claws
London Bridge - Old and New
London Mug-house Riots
Loss of the 'Royal George'
Naval Engagement between the the USS Bon Homme Richard & HMS Serapis
Newspaper management in the seventeenth century
On the life of Charles II after the overthrow of Charles I
Opening of the first Royal Exchange
Peter the Hermit - The story of the first Crusade
Philip VI of France�s demand that Edward III pay him homage
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Sicilian Vespers of 1282
South Sea financial bubble
Spain bequeathed to the Bourbons
Suppression of the Order of the Knights Templars, March 22, 1312
The 1744 mutiny of the Black Watch regiment
The 1778 festival held in Philadelphia in honor of General Howe
The 1797 French Invasion of Wales
The fall of Louis XVI and the abolition of the ancient monarchy of France
The Barebones Parliament
The battles of Boarstall House
The battle of Bunker Hill
The battle of Halidon Hill
The battle of Hastings
The Battle of Otterbourne and Chevy Chase
The battle of Poitiers
The battle of the Boyne
The battle of Waterloo
The British Nimrod
The captivity of John, King of France, at Somerton Castle
The cape of good hope doubled by Vasco da Gama
The establishment of London's foundling Hospital
The execution of Charles 1
The first Parliament in 1246
The first steamer on the Thames
The great London Fire of 1666
The great London plague of 1665
The great railway mania day of 1845
The great storm of 27
th
November 1703
The Gowrie Conspiracy
The Gunpowder Plot
The history behind the term 'Prince of Wales'
The history of archery in England
The history of Boarstall House
The history of church bells
The history of London fashionable life
The history of Morris Dancing
The history of the first Baronets
The history of the city gates of London
The history of the English versions of the Bible
The history of the game of Pall Mall
The history of the Imperial Crown
The history of the mariner's compass
The history of the pillory
The history of the Pony Express
The history of the term 'quarantine'
The history of the Umbrella
The history of the Victoria Cross
The history of Saltpetre
The history of Skating
The History of Water & Paper Marks
The history of whipping vagrants
The hot Wednesday of 1808
The Irish massacre of 1641
The Iron Crown of Italy
The last days of William the Conqueror
The last of the Alchemists
The Mississippi Scheme
The naval mutinies of 1797
The Norfolk commotion of 1549
The Percy insurrection�battle of Shrewsbury�death of Hotspur
The popish plot of 1678
The rebel Lords of 1746
The retreat from Caubul, 1842
The revocation of the Edict of Nantes
The revolution of 1399
The severe Christmas of 1860: intense cold and its effects
The South Sea financial bubble
The sweating sickness of 1485
The visit of King Christian IV of Denmark to England in 1606
The War of the Roses
The water supply of old London
Thomas Blood's attempt to steal the crown jewels
War of Succession in Spain
William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania
Love
Annulling of the late Duke of Sussex's first marriage
Beau Wilson and his affair with the mistress of William III
Dispensation granted to Philip, landgrave of Hesse to have two wives
Fleet Marriages
George III and Lady Sarah Lennox
Killing of two rustic lovers by a lightning stroke
Love and Madness
Marriage arrangements in old times
Marriage of Eliza Spencer
Marriage of Louis XII and the Princess Mary
Noah and his wife
The love affair of John Dalmeny and Kitty Cannon
The love affair of Princess Mary and Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk
The love affairs of Mary Wollstonecraft
The history of the Apprentice's Pillar
The ill advised marriage of Elizabeth Chudleigh and the Earl of Bristol
The marriage of Eliza Spencer
The marriage of William and Mary
The rocky marriage of Edward Coke and Lady Hatton
The romances of the Lady Arabella Stuart
The sad love story of Heloise and Abelard
The sad marriage of Princess Caroline of Brunswick & George IV
The story of Jane M'rea
The Tribute of Roses
Miscellaneous
A 1709 design for a flying ship
A Contest of Precedence
A Herefordshire Lady in the Time of the Civil War
A king arrested by his vassal
Abolition of the passport-system in France
An earthquake in Scotland
An extraordinary attack by bees in Prussia
Ancient writing-materials
Ancient books
Ancient watches
Arundelian Marbles
Autumnal Equinox
Banbury and its Remarkables
Bear Baiting
Borrowed Days
Bread, its making and sale in the middle ages
Brotherhood of the Piu
Burning of Milton's Books by the Hangman
Coffee House Clubs
Court Fools and Jesters
Crowing of the Cock
Curious Advertisements of Two Centuries Ago
Death and funeral of a squaw in London
Deserted towns of Ancient Britain
Dr. Gregory and the benefits of starving oneself
Discoveries from Astronomers of the Greenwich Observatory
Expiration of the Cornish Language
Extraordinary calculators
First balloon ascents in Britain
Franking of letters letters prior to the establishment of the Post Office
Freak show personalities
Great fires a cause of rain: Espy's theory
Halley's Comet of 1682
Hell-fire clubs: Fraternities of free-living men
How carpenter-bees got their name
Instinctive musical geniuses
Legal prosecutions of the lower animals
Life in London in the mid 1700s
Life saving dogs
London Shoeblacks
Lord Worcester and His 'Century of Inventions'
Lost rings that somehow made their way back to their owners
John Dalton and the structure of matter
King James and his love of animals
King James and the Tower Lions
Management of debtor prison
Mechanics' Institutions
Milton's birthplace, and its vicinity
Miscellaneous Sayings
Miss Linwood's Needlework
Mysteriously-found pieces of money
Newspaper management in the seventeenth century
Notes on an ancient Gothic crown
0. P. Riots of 1808
Odd bequests in last wills and testaments
Oddities of family histories - centenarians
Old sayings as to clothes
Old suburban tea-gardens
On cases of alternate sanity and insanity
On the ability of people to fast for long time periods
On the early opposition to practice of vaccination
On the nature of parties given at the public gardens at Vauxhall
On the sale of
Boccaccio's Decamerone
, printed at Venice in 1471
Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway
Passover of the Modern Jews
Patching and Painting - Face decorations
Patron Saints of various countries, groups and activities
People who have revived after being hung
People who are extraordinary heavy
Picking of locks
Pickpocket & Cut-purses
Plants named after animals
Pretended Murders of Christian Children by the Jews
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Questions considered amusing in the year 1510
Remarkable cases of suspended animation
Remarkable cases of resemblance of distant relatives
Remarkable wagers
Rich Beggers
Sepulchral vagaries
Shakspeare Commemoration Festival in 1769
Showers of animals
Spanning of distant ages by tribes of individuals
Story of the Diamond Necklace
Sun-dials and hour-glasses
The 1661 battle for precedence between Spanish & French ambassadors
The Arundelian Marbles
The bells of Big Ben
The Beggar's Opera of Gay
The Berkshire Lady's Garland
The Calve's Head Club
The early roads of England, their conditions, & stage coach travel
The death of John Day
The first newspaper printed by steam
The Halifax Law
The history behind the term 'Scarborough Warning'
The history of newspapers
The Hottentot Venus
The incident of the shipwrecked foundling
The introduction of tea to England
The last 'State Lottery' drawn in England
The luck of Edenhall
The Macaronis
The misadventures of the equestrian statue of King William
The Nightingale and its song
The Old Hermit of Newton Burgoland
The origin of Hackney-coach Stands
The origin of Gentleman's Clubs
The Penny Post
The pig faced lady
The prophecies of Nostradamus
The Translation of St. Cuthbert
The Whitehorse of Berkshire
Turnspit dogs - The use of dogs to turn meat while cooking
Vegetables, herbs, and fruits in England in the thirteenth century
Washing tallies
Wayland Smiths Cave
Woman who swallowed a brass padlock
Murder
and Crime
Attempt by Richard II son Arthur to claim the Crown & his murder by King John
Attempted assassination of French king, Louis Philippe
Assassination of Emperor Domitian
Assassination of Mr. Spencer Percival
Assassination of Mr. Thynne in Pall Mall
Cutpurses & Pickpockets
Early attempts at using bombs to assassinate political figures
George Duke of Clarence�was He Drowned in Malmsey?
Joseph Ady and his scheme to defraud people by false claims of inheritance
Mary Moders: The imposter German Princess
The atrocious murder of Thomas Arden of Faversham
The atrocities of Giles de Laval - The original Bluebeard
The convention of a murder as a result of the actions of the deceased's dog
The crimes of the Marchioness of Brinvilliers
The legend of the Littlecote murder
The Gowrie Conspiracy
The maiming of Sir John Coventry
The Marchioness of Brinvilliers
The murder of Amy Robsart, wife of Lord Robert Dudley
The murder of Arthur Davis
The murder of Daniel Clack by Eugene Aram
The murder of David Ruzzio, Mary Queen of Scotts secretary
The murder of John and Cornelius de Witt- eminent Dutch statesmen
The murder of Murdoch Grant, an itinerant peddler
The murder of Ruth Osborne
The murder of Thomas Becket - Archbishop of Canterbury
The murder of Thomas Overbury
The St. Bartholomew Massacre
Tyburn - celebrated place of execution
Unjust trial and condemnation of Jean Calas
People
Alexander, Cagliostro, a most remarkable impostor
Arden of Faversham
Benjamin Franklin in England
Cecily, Duchess of York, the mother of kings
Charles and Mary Lamb
Count Wallenstein & his role in the 30 years war
Death of William Rufus
Don Carlos - Son of Philip II of Spain
Don Roderick, the last of its Gothic kings
Dr. Stukeley, the antiquary, and his speculations
Eccentricities of Dr. William Kitchiner
Giles de Laval - The original Bluebeard
Grace Darling - Heroine of the Fame Islands
Henry Welby, The Hermit of Grubb Street
Isaac Newton and the legend of the falling apple
Ignatius Loyola and the establishment of the Jesuit order
Joan D'arc
Kaspar Hauser, mysterious foundling
Lady Burleigh and Her Three Learned Sisters
Legends surrounding the death of Joan D'Ark
Legendary history of King Arthur
Madame Roland & her role in the French revolution
Margaret, Queen of Scotland
Margaret, Maid of Norway
Mary Moder, the German Princess
Nicolo di Rienzi: The last of the Roman patriots
Noah and his wife
Oliver Cromwell�his death�a queer peculiarity of his character
On the disinterment of the body of John Hampden
On the life of Charles II after the overthrow of Charles I
Peter the Great in England
Prince Hohenlohe's Miraculous Cures
Princes of Wales
Rich Beggars
Sarah, the Peasant Countess of Exeter
Seventh sons and their seventh sons
Saint Ambrose and the Emperor
Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester�the Cromwell of the thirteenth century
Strange history of the Chevalier D'eon
R�aumur and his thermometer
Robin Hood - Celebrated outlaw of Sherwood Forest
Robert, Duke of Normandy
Talent Without Conduct: the Life of William Maginn
The death and funeral of Robert Burns
The death of Charles II
The death of General Wolfe
The death of Louis the XVI
The death of John Hampden, his burial and disinterment in 1828
The death of the Duke of Wellington
The death of Thomas, Duke of Gloucester
The Empress Josephine and her horoscope
The fall of Cardinal Wolsey
The imprisonment of John Bernardi
The last days of Louis XIV
The last days of William the Conqueror
The last days of William Pitt
The last of the alchemists
The legend behind Richard I's nick-name "Lion Hearted'
The legend of Thomas Becket Parents
The legendary history of St. Brendan
The legendary history of St. George
The legendary history of St. Patrick
The life and times of the Constable de Bourbon
The life and times of Ben Johson
The life and times of Cecily, Duchess of York: Mother of kings
The life and times of Elizabeth Cromwell
The life and times of Elizabeth Stewart, Electress of Palatine
The life and times of Edward, the Black Prince
The life and times of George Macartney
The life and times of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden
The life and time of Joe Miller
The life and times of John Lilburne: The Pamphleteer
The life and times of Karl Theodor K�rner, German poet
The life and times of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The life and times of Louis XIV
The life and times of Phillip, the Duke of Wharton
The life and times of Prince Albert
The life and times of Roger Bacon
The life and times of Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester
The life and time of Sir Charles James Napier
The life and times of Sir Horace Walpole
The life and times of Sir Thomas Bodley
The life and times of Sir Walter Raleigh
The life and times of St. Bernard
The life and times of St. James the Great
The life and times of St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland
The life and times of St. Nicholas
The life and times of St. Swithin
The life and times of the Earl of Peterborough
The life and times of the celebrated beauty Ninon De Lenclos
The life and times of William Cobbett
The life of Henry Clifford, the Shepherd Lord
The life of John Camden Neild - Eccentric gentleman & miser
The life of John Elwes - Noted miser
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Old Hermit of Newton Burgoland
The Peasant Countess
The rise and fall of the house of Paulet (Marquis of Winchester)
The sad ending of the life of La Belle Jennings
The travels of Madame Ida Pfeiffer
The two Empresses, Josephine and Maria Louisa
The Witches of Belvior
Thieves of London
Thomas Parr and his long life of 152 years
Tragedy of the Galas Family
Visit of Marie De Medici to England
Places
London Bridge
London Mug-houses
Old London Shops
The history of Cliefden house
The history of the Greenwich Fair
The Silent Tower of Bottreaux
Politics
Duel between the Duke of York and colonel Lenox
On addressing royalist grievances following the restoration of Charles II
The Barons' War
The captivity of John, King of France, at Somerton Castle
The Garrat elections
The revolution of 1399
The War of the Roses
War of Succession in Spain
Religion
Burning at the stake of two heretics
Calvin's burning of Michael Servetus
Conversion of the Britons to Christianity
Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Hiding of priests during the reformation
Perambulating parishes in Rogation week
Pretended murders of Christian children by the Jews
Prohibition against the Christian burial of Protestants
St. Patrick's Purgatory
The Commonwealth of Hades
The history of numerous relics worshipped by Roman Catholics
The mystery Passion play on Good Friday in Monaco
The scanty of Sunday
The story of the Jew who had witnessed the Crucifixion
The Whitsun Mysteries at Chester
