Historical Figures

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Avvakum Petrovich, Russian Priest and Martyr (1620 - 1682)

'General' William Booth (1829 - 1912), Evangelist

'Richard III' by William Shakespeare

'Robber' Lewis

'The Execution of Lady Jane Grey' by Paul Delaroche

'The Hiding Place' and Corrie ten Boom

Day in the Life of Samuel Pepys

AEthelred II the Unready - King of England

Adam Clayton Powell Jr - Activist and Politician

Adam Smith - Economist and Philosopher

Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson - The Early Years

Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson - The Years of Fame and Glory

Alan Turing - Computer Scientist

Albert Ball - World War I Flying Ace

Alcuin of York - Scholar

Alexander Hamilton - A Rolling Stone Forever

Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin - Scientist and Composer

Alexander the Great

Alexander: The Tireless Conqueror

Alfred the Great - King of the West Saxons

Alice B Toklas and Gertrude Stein

Alma Mahler-Werfel - Part 1: 1879 to 1911

Ambrose Bierce - Lucifer's Lexicographer

Amelia Earhart - Death by Parallax?

Amerigo Vespucci

An Irreverent History of Steelmaking

Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova

Animal Heroes [5]

Anne Bonny and Mary Read - Piracy and Sexual Deviance on the Spanish Main

Anne Frank and her Diary

Archimedes

Arthur Furguson - Salesman of Monuments

Attila the Hun

Benedict Arnold - Part II - Patriot, War Hero and Traitor

Benedict Arnold - Part I - The Road to Saratoga

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Lay, Quaker and Abolitionist

Bertolt Brecht - Playwright

Billy the Kid - Outlaw

Bismarck Towers - A Rash Of Monuments

Bob Geldof KBE - Musician, Humanitarian and Activist

Bobby Sands MP (1954 - 1981)

Bohr and the Bomb

Bonnie and Clyde - The Real Story

Boudicca

Brian Boru - Overlord of All Ireland

Butlin's Holiday Camps - a British Institution

Captain James Cook - Explorer

Caryl Chessman, The Red Light Bandit

Charles Dickens - Author

Charles II: Escape to Exile

Charles Wesley - Preacher and Hymn-writer

Che Guevara - Revolutionary

Chief Okemos

Christopher Columbus - Explorer - Part One

Christopher Columbus - Explorer - Part Three

Christopher Columbus - Explorer - Part Two

Cincinnatus: Saviour of the Roman Republic

Clever Hans

Colonel Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp MP - A Most Unconventional Conventionalist

DB Cooper - Skyjacker and Folk Hero

Daniel O'Connell

Dante Alighieri - Poet

David Ingram's Improbable Walk Across 16th-Century America

David Lloyd George - Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Davy Crockett, Tennessee Legend

De Aguilar and Guerrero - Mayan Captives

Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales, and the Power of Myth

Donald Woods - the Man Who Told us of Biko

Dr Chad Varah CH CBE - Founder of The Samaritans

Dr Charles West - Pioneer of English Paediatrics

Dr David Livingstone - Missionary and Explorer

Dr John Rae, Arctic Explorer

Dr Josef Mengele - the Angel of Death

Dracula's Ancestors - Vampires Without the Dinner Jackets

Eamon de Valera

Edgar the Peaceful (c943 - 975) - King of England

Edward II - King of England

Edward IV - King of England

Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823)

Edward the Elder - King of England

Egbert - King of Wessex

Eilmer of Malmesbury - the Flying Monk

Elaine Morgan: Housewife, Screenwriter, Scientist and Author

Elaine Rivis Anderson - The Little Girl In The Cemetery

Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady

Elizabeth Bathory - the Blood Countess

Elizabeth Fry - Social Reformer

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - Victorian Women's Campaigner

Emmeline Pankhurst - Suffragette

Emperor Joshua Norton I of America

Emperor Nero - Olympic Champion

Eric Bloodaxe, King of Jorvik (York) and Northumbria (947-954)

Ethelbald, Ethelbert and Ethelred I - Kings of England

Ethelwulf - King of England

Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel - the Desert Fox

Five Ladies and the Tower of London

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

Francois Rabelais - His Bawdy Parts and Naughty Bits

Freedom of Speech in Lebanon: Gebran Ghassan Tueni (1957 - 2005)

Galileo Galilei - Father of Modern Science

Gandhi [3]

Gandhi - Pacifist and Political Activist - an Overview

Gaudi's Barcelona

Georg Elser: Heroic German Anti-Nazi

George Ballinger, Dissident of Dundee

George Berkeley, Empiricist Philosopher and Bishop

George Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn

George Orwell - Author

Gerrard Winstanley - a Very English Anarchist

Giovanni Belzoni [3]

Grace Darling - the Lighthouse Heroine

Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader, DSO DFC

HL Mencken - the Sage of Baltimore

HM Queen Elizabeth - Queen Consort 1936 - 1952

HM Queen Elizabeth - The Queen Mother

HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - Her Early Years (1900 - 1923)

HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Duchess of York (1923 - 1936)

Harold Gatty - Prince of Navigators

Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister 1966 - 67

Harry Houdini

Helen Keller

Helmut Kohl

Henry David Thoreau

Henry Dunant and the Founding of the Red Cross

Henry Ford

Henry II - the 'First' King of England

Henry VI - The Reign of England's Weakest King

Ho Chi Minh - the City and the Statesman

How to Prevent a War Using Ordinary Household Objects - Jean Robert-Houdin and the Marabouts

Hypatia of Alexandria

Ibn Khaldun - Anthropologist/Sociologist/Historian

Infamous Historical Poisoners

Ira Hayes - an Unwilling Hero

Isaac Newton [14]

Isaac Newton: Overview

Jack the Ripper - Anonymous Murderer

Jeanne de Clisson - the 'Lioness of Brittany'

Jeremiah Horrocks - Father of British Astronomy

Joan of Arc - Maid of Orleans

Joan of Arc and the Role of Medieval Women

Joe Clough - London's First Black Motorbus Driver

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, 'Sheikh Ibrahim'

John 'Babbacombe' Lee

John Brown, Anti-Slavery Zealot

John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough: Part One (1650 - 1700)

John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough: Part Two (1700 - 22)

John F Kennedy and Gettysburg

John Glenn - Astronaut, Politician and Pilot

John Perrott - The Pope Converter

John Simpson Kirkpatrick - the Man with the Donkey

John Titor: a Time Traveller From The Year 2036?

Jonathan Dayton - Revolutionary and Politician

Jonathan Martin: The Man Who Burned York Minster

Jose Bove - the Man Who Dismantled a McDonalds

Joseph Merrick - the 'Elephant Man'

Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804)

Julio-Claudian Emperors of Rome [5]

Julius Caesar - Roman Dictator

Karen Silkwood - Campaigner

King George VI - the Unexpected King

King Henry VIII

King John and the Magna Carta

King Leopold II and the Belgian Congo

King Stephen - a Good Bloke

King Tupou IV of Tonga

Kings of Kent - from Eorcenbehrt to Ealhmund

Lawrence of Arabia - The Man, The Books, The Film

Leonard Cheshire

Leonhard Euler - Mathematician

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch - Eponym of Masochism

Lewis Carroll - Logician, Nonsense Writer, Mathematician and Photographer

Lincolnshire People - Noble and Ignoble

Lord Baden-Powell's Role in The Girl Guide Movement (UK)

Lord Kelvin - the Physicist

Macbeth - Scottish King

Mad Anthony's Ghost

Major General Sir Henry Havelock (1795 - 1857)

Malcolm X - Spiritual Leader

Margaret Thatcher - British Prime Minister 1979 - 1990

Margorie McCall - Deceased

Maria von Trapp - From Fact to Fiction

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

Mary Harris (Mother) Jones - Union Activist

Mary Seacole - Pioneering Nurse

Matthew Hopkins, 'Witchfinder General' of East Anglia

Michael Collins - Irish Revolutionary Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte 1805-1821 - From Empire to Waterloo

Ned Kelly: Bushranger

Nellie McClung: Author and Activist

Nelson Mandela - a Humanitarian

Nicolaus Copernicus - Pioneering Cosmologist

Ninja

Officials in Ancient Athenian Democracy

Olaudah Equiano: Slave, Sailor, Abolitionist and Author

Olave Baden-Powell

Oliver Cromwell - What's In A Name?

Oliver Cromwell: Lord Protector of the Commonwealth

Oliver Hazard Perry - Naval Hero

Operation Mincemeat

Owain Glyndwr (Owen Glendower)

Pamela Colman Smith - Tarot Card Artist

Papal Names

Parliamentary Generals in the 1640s - Sir John Merrick

Parliamentary Generals in the 1640s: The Commander The Earl Of Essex

Parliamentary Generals in the 1640s: The Earl of Stamford

Patrice Lumumba - African Statesman

Paula Yates (1960 - 2000) - Author and TV Presenter

Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z

Pericles - Athenian Statesman and General

Pharaoh Akhenaten 'the Heretic'

Pharaoh Hatshepsup

Pirates and Piracy [7]

Planning for Guy Fawkes Night

Prince William - the First 20 Years

Princess Grace of Monaco aka Grace Kelly

Private Goodwin's War - A Personal Account of World War Two

Pyrrhus the Eagle, King of Epirus: 319 - 272 BC

Queen Caroline's Tragic Final Journey

Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Victoria: 'Mrs Melbourne'

Quinoa

Quintus Sertorius - Roman General

Rasputin - The 'Mad Monk'

Richard III - Malignant or Maligned Monarch?

Richard III Unearthed

Richard Trevithick and the First Railway Locomotive

Rick Rescorla - Security Manager and Hero

Robert E Lee - Confederate General

Robert FitzRoy (1805 - 1865)

Robert Recorde - Mathematician

Salmoxis - Slave and God

Samuel Franklin Cody - Pioneer of British Aviation

Samuel Ogden 1819 - 1903 - Manufacturer and Businessman

Sarah Baartman

Screaming Lord Sutch

Sir Francis Bacon and the Baconian Cipher

Sir George Sitwell, Eccentric Baronet

Sir Humphry Davy FRS (1778 - 1829)

Sir Patrick Moore - Astronomer, TV Presenter and Author

Sir Thomas Holte (1571 - 1654)

Socrates

Sophie Dawes - Queen of Chantilly

Spence Broughton - a Famous Corpse

St Helena of Constantine (c250 - 330)

St John the Baptist

Staufen im Breisgau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, and the Death of Faust

Sweeney Todd - Coiffeur de Demon

Swift Nick Nevison the Highwayman - A Yorkshire Legend

Case of Carl Von Cosel

Covenanters in 17th Century Scotland

Execution of Thomas Harrison

Fate of the Last Supper Thirteen - a Very Brief Addendum

Gadfly

Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison

Kennedy Family and Classical Themes

Last Words of the American Founding Fathers

Leaders of the Nazi Party

Life Of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

Love Story of Abelard and Heloise

Man in the Iron Mask

Matter of Constantine's Beard

Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller

Myth of Thomas Crapper

Political Philosophy of John Rawls

Presentation of Jesus in John's Gospel

Princes in the Tower

Reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England

Return of Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York Minster

Reverend Sydney Smith, 1771 - 1845

Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1805

Rochdale Pioneers

Strange Sayings of Sir Boyle Roche

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Unknown Warrior

Wellington Statue, Aldershot, Hampshire, UK

The Wright Brothers [5]

Wright Brothers - Aviators

They Founded America

Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson - Confederate General

Thomas John Barnardo 1845 - 1905 Philanthropist

Thomas Paine - Revolutionary Pamphleteer

Tipu Sultan - The Tiger of Mysore

Tutankhamun - the 'Boy King'

Tutankhamun's Borrowed Tomb and Recycled Treasure

Tycho Brahe, Astronomer

Typhoid Mary

Uncle Sam

Valentine - Saint or Slave to Commerce?

Victor Hugo - Writer

WE Gladstone, Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland - Part One

WE Gladstone, Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland - Part Three

WE Gladstone, Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland - Part Two

WT Cosgrave

What Was the Name of Napoleon's Horse?

William Banting - the First Person To Market Dieting

William Bligh - Vice Admiral of the Blue

William Dampier - Pirate, Explorer and Naturalist

William Hall VC

William Shakespeare - Playwright

William Shakespeare - Who Was He?

William T Stead - Journalist (1849 - 1912)

William the Conqueror

Williamina Fleming - Astronomy Pioneer

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