Historical Figures
This is where you can find Approved Entries on the above Category
Avvakum Petrovich, Russian Priest and Martyr (1620 - 1682)
'General' William Booth (1829 - 1912), Evangelist
'Richard III' by William Shakespeare
'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
Alexander Hamilton - A Rolling Stone Forever
Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin - Scientist and Composer
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?
An Irreverent History of Steelmaking
Anne Bonny and Mary Read - Piracy and Sexual Deviance on the Spanish Main
Arthur Furguson - Salesman of Monuments
Benedict Arnold - Part II - Patriot, War Hero and Traitor
Benedict Arnold - Part I - The Road to Saratoga
Benjamin Lay, Quaker and Abolitionist
Bismarck Towers - A Rash Of Monuments
Bob Geldof KBE - Musician, Humanitarian and Activist
Bonnie and Clyde - The Real Story
Brian Boru - Overlord of All Ireland
Butlin's Holiday Camps - a British Institution
Caryl Chessman, The Red Light Bandit
Charles Wesley - Preacher and Hymn-writer
Christopher Columbus - Explorer - Part One
Christopher Columbus - Explorer - Part Three
Christopher Columbus - Explorer - Part Two
Cincinnatus: Saviour of the Roman Republic
Colonel Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp MP - A Most Unconventional Conventionalist
DB Cooper - Skyjacker and Folk Hero
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, 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 Josef Mengele - the Angel of Death
Dracula's Ancestors - Vampires Without the Dinner Jackets
Edgar the Peaceful (c943 - 975) - King of England
Edward the Elder - King of England
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
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)
Gandhi - Pacifist and Political Activist - an Overview
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
Gerrard Winstanley - a Very English Anarchist
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
Henry Dunant and the Founding of the Red Cross
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
Ibn Khaldun - Anthropologist/Sociologist/Historian
Jack the Ripper - Anonymous Murderer
Jeanne de Clisson - the 'Lioness of Brittany'
Jeremiah Horrocks - Father of British Astronomy
Joan of Arc and the Role of Medieval Women
Joe Clough - London's First Black Motorbus Driver
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, 'Sheikh Ibrahim'
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 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
King George VI - the Unexpected King
King Leopold II and the Belgian Congo
Kings of Kent - from Eorcenbehrt to Ealhmund
Lawrence of Arabia - The Man, The Books, The Film
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)
Major General Sir Henry Havelock (1795 - 1857)
Margaret Thatcher - British Prime Minister 1979 - 1990
Maria von Trapp - From Fact to Fiction
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
Nellie McClung: Author and Activist
Nelson Mandela - a Humanitarian
Nicolaus Copernicus - Pioneering Cosmologist
Officials in Ancient Athenian Democracy
Olaudah Equiano: Slave, Sailor, Abolitionist and Author
Oliver Cromwell - What's In A Name?
Oliver Cromwell: Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
Oliver Hazard Perry - Naval Hero
Owain Glyndwr (Owen Glendower)
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'
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 Victoria: 'Mrs Melbourne'
Quintus Sertorius - Roman General
Richard III - Malignant or Maligned Monarch?
Richard Trevithick and the First Railway Locomotive
Rick Rescorla - Security Manager and Hero
Robert E Lee - Confederate General
Robert Recorde - Mathematician
Samuel Franklin Cody - Pioneer of British Aviation
Samuel Ogden 1819 - 1903 - Manufacturer and Businessman
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)
Sophie Dawes - Queen of Chantilly
Spence Broughton - a Famous Corpse
St Helena of Constantine (c250 - 330)
Staufen im Breisgau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, and the Death of Faust
Sweeney Todd - Coiffeur de Demon
Swift Nick Nevison the Highwayman - A Yorkshire Legend
Covenanters in 17th Century Scotland
Fate of the Last Supper Thirteen - a Very Brief Addendum
Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison
Kennedy Family and Classical Themes
Last Words of the American Founding Fathers
Life Of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Love Story of Abelard and Heloise
Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller
Political Philosophy of John Rawls
Presentation of Jesus in John's Gospel
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
Strange Sayings of Sir Boyle Roche
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Wellington Statue, Aldershot, Hampshire, UK
Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson - Confederate General
Thomas John Barnardo 1845 - 1905 Philanthropist
Thomas Paine - Revolutionary Pamphleteer
Tipu Sultan - The Tiger of Mysore
Tutankhamun's Borrowed Tomb and Recycled Treasure
Valentine - Saint or Slave to Commerce?
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
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 Shakespeare - Playwright
William Shakespeare - Who Was He?