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
- 'The Scandalous Lady W' - the Television Drama
- Day in the Life of Samuel Pepys
- Transylvanian Abroad: Domjen, Franklin, and the Travelling Electrical Show
- AEthelred II the Unready - King of England
- Actors, Petroleum, and History: John Wilkes Booth and the Dramatic Oil Company
- Ada Lovelace - Mathematician and Computer Scientist
- 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
- Albert Einstein [2]
- 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 Nobel - Chemist, Inventor, and Engineer
- Alfred the Great - King of the West Saxons
- Alice B Toklas and Gertrude Stein
- Alma Mahler-Werfel - Part 1: 1879 to 1911
- Alphonse Bertillon Invents the Mugshot
- Ambrose Bierce - Lucifer's Lexicographer
- Amelia Earhart - Death by Parallax?
- Amerigo Vespucci
- An Irreverent History of Steelmaking
- Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova
- Andrew Carnegie: Steel, Money and Culture
- Animal Heroes [8]
- Anne Askew - Lincolnshire Martyr
- 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
- Bertha von Suttner: Long Live the Future!
- Berthold Buttgereit and the Gender Police
- Bertolt Brecht - Playwright
- Betty James' Slinky Story
- Betty White, US Television Icon
- Between Silk and Cyanide: Leo Marks Decodes SOE
- 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
- Buster Brown's Flying Columns: The Canadian Plan to Invade the US
- Butlin's Holiday Camps - a British Institution
- Byzantium: Basil the Bulgar Slayer
- Byzantium: Constantine XI and the Fall of Constantinople
- Byzantium: Empress Zoe
- Byzantium: Romanos Diogenes and the Loss of Anatolia
- Captain James Cook - Explorer
- Caroline Chisholm - The Emigrants' Friend
- Caroline Herschel - Astronomer
- Caryl Chessman, The Red Light Bandit
- Charles Dickens - Author
- Charles II: Escape to Exile
- Charles Stuart Courting at the Court of Spain
- Charles Wesley - Preacher and Hymn-writer
- Chavasse Park, Liverpool, UK - Urban Oasis and Family Tribute
- 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
- Damnatio memoriae: Cancel Culture Through the Millennia
- Damon Runyon: How to Talk Like a Gangster
- 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
- Death on The Nile, 1155 BCE
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Diana, Princess of Wales, and the Power of Myth
- Divine – Iconic Drag Queen
- 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 Creep, Ohio Horror Host
- Dr David Livingstone - Missionary and Explorer
- Dr John Rae, Arctic Explorer
- Dr Josef Mengele - the Angel of Death
- Dr Mary Edwards Walker: Army Physician, Feminist, Eccentric
- Dracula's Ancestors - Vampires Without the Dinner Jackets
- Duelling Communists! August Willich, and What Karl Marx Thought of Him
- Eamon de Valera
- Edgar the Peaceful (c943 - 975) - King of England
- Edith Cavell - Nurse and WWI Martyr
- 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 Fortescue-Brickdale - Artist
- Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady
- Elizabeth Bathory - the Blood Countess
- Elizabeth Cochrane aka Nellie Bly - Investigative Journalist
- Elizabeth Fry - Social Reformer
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - Victorian Women's Campaigner
- Emily Wilding Davison - Suffragette
- Emma, Lady Hamilton: The Early Years
- 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
- Fate, Faith, and Phrenology: Fanny Crosby Meets George Combe
- Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel - the Desert Fox
- Five Ladies and the Tower of London
- Flora Sandes - Heroine of the Great War
- Florence Lawrence - the First Movie Star
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
- Francois Rabelais - His Bawdy Parts and Naughty Bits
- Frank Laubach: Teaching the World to Read
- Freedom of Speech in Lebanon: Gebran Ghassan Tueni (1957 - 2005)
- From the Horse's Mouth: Homestead and Carnegie from Primary Sources
- Galileo Galilei - Father of Modern Science
- Gandhi [3]
- Gandhi - Pacifist and Political Activist - an Overview
- Gaudi's Barcelona
- General William Tecumseh Sherman - an Enigma
- Georg Elser: Heroic German Anti-Nazi
- George Ballinger, Dissident of Dundee
- George Berkeley, Sceptic, Philosopher, and Bishop
- George Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn
- George Orwell - Author
- George Villiers - Duke of Buckingham
- 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
- Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Harry Houdini
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller Plays the Palace: A Vaudeville Story
- 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 Make a Language Difference - Ms Sheila Michaels
- How to Prevent a War Using Ordinary Household Objects - Jean Robert-Houdin and the Marabouts
- Hypatia of Alexandria
- Ibn Khaldun - Anthropologist/Sociologist/Historian
- Ida Tarbell: Journalist, Historian, Pioneer
- Ida Wells Makes Noise: The Columbian Exposition Protest of 1893
- Ignaz Semmelweis and the Campaign for Healthy Hand-Washing
- Infamous Historical Poisoners
- Ira Hayes - an Unwilling Hero
- Isaac Newton [14]
- Isaac Newton: Overview
- Jack the Ripper - Anonymous Murderer
- James VI of Scotland Inherits the English Throne
- Jane Addams and the Devil Baby: Fake News, 1913 Style
- Jeanne de Clisson - the 'Lioness of Brittany'
- Jennie Hodgers aka Albert Cashier - Pioneering Soldier
- Jeremiah Horrocks - Father of British Astronomy
- Jimmy Durante: Ragtime and Beyond
- 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 Forbes Nash - Mathematician
- John Glenn - Astronaut, Politician and Pilot
- John Horton Conway - Mathematician
- John Middleton - the Childe of Hale
- John Muir - Conservationist
- John Perrot - 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)
- Julian of Norwich's World in a Nutshell: Life, the Universe, and Everything
- 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
- Klara Borstel-Engelsman: In Memoriam
- Knights, Horses and Fact-checking old Songs: the Tale of Sir Hamo
- Lawrence of Arabia - The Man, The Books, The Film
- Leonard Cheshire
- Leonardo da Vinci - Renaissance Man
- Leonhard Euler - Mathematician
- Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch - Eponym of Masochism
- Lewis Carroll - Logician, Nonsense Writer, Mathematician and Photographer
- Lillie Hitchcock-Coit - Firefighter
- Lincolnshire People - Noble and Ignoble
- Lisa Potts - Schoolyard Heroine
- Lord Baden-Powell's Role in The Girl Guide Movement (UK)
- Lord Kelvin - the Physicist
- Loriot - Caricaturing the German Soul
- Louis XIII of France
- Macbeth - Scottish King
- Mad Anthony's Ghost
- Mad Jack Fuller and the Belle Tout Lighthouse
- Major General Sir Henry Havelock (1795 - 1857)
- Malcolm X - Spiritual Leader
- Margaret Bulkley aka Dr James Barry - Pioneering Surgeon
- Margaret Leibovici nee Kelly aka Miss Bluebell - Indomitable Dancer and Impresario
- Margaret Sanger - Pioneer in Birth Control and Women's Rights
- Margaret Thatcher - British Prime Minister 1979 - 1990
- Margorie McCall - Deceased
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi - Mathematician
- Maria von Trapp - From Fact to Fiction
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
- Mary Croghan Schenley: Love and Real Estate
- Mary East aka James How - a Female Husband
- Mary Harris (Mother) Jones - Union Activist
- Mary Seacole - Pioneering Nurse
- Maryam Mirzakhani - Mathematician
- Matthew Hopkins, 'Witchfinder General' of East Anglia
- Melvil Dewey: Libraries, Antisemitism, and Sexual Harassment
- Michael Collins - Irish Revolutionary Leader
- Mimar Sinan, the Architect of the Ottoman Empire
- Missing, Misplaced and Muddled Monarchs
- More Fake News: Geoffrey Tandy and the Algae That Saved Civilisation
- Napoleon Bonaparte 1805-1821 - From Empire to Waterloo
- Ned Kelly: Bushranger
- Nelle Harper Lee - Context, Influence, Controversy
- Nellie McClung: Author and Activist
- Nelson Mandela - a Humanitarian
- Nicolas Louis de la Caille, his Lunar Crater and the X on the Terminator
- Nicolaus Copernicus - Pioneering Cosmologist
- Nikola Tesla
- Ninja
- Nobel Laureate [19]
- Notes on the Lunatic Fringe: Art, Hair, and Emancipated Children
- Officials in Ancient Athenian Democracy
- Olaudah Equiano: Slave, Sailor, Abolitionist and Author
- Olave Baden-Powell
- Old Mother Redcap - Poll Jones, Friend to the Pirates
- 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
- Paul Dirac - Physicist
- Paula Yates (1959 - 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 [8]
- Planning for Guy Fawkes Night
- Plato - Eminent Greek Philosopher and Writer
- Prince Kaboo, Missionary: Samuel Morris, from Liberia to the United States
- Prince William - the First 20 Years
- Princess Charlotte of Wales and her Warring Parents
- 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'
- Quentin Crisp - Artist, Author, Actor, Raconteur
- Quintus Sertorius - Roman General
- Rasputin - The 'Mad Monk'
- Raymond Queneau - Poet and Mathematician
- 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 Kett and his Tudor Rebellion of 1549, Benjamin Zephaniah, William Shakespeare and a Norfolk Ghost Story
- Robert Recorde - Mathematician
- Sacheen Littlefeather and Marlon Brando's Oscar Refusal
- Salmoxis - Slave and God
- Samuel Franklin Cody - Pioneer of British Aviation
- Samuel Ogden 1819 - 1903 - Manufacturer and Businessman
- Sarah Baartman
- Screaming Lord Sutch
- Simon de Montfort, the Battle of Lewes and the English Constitution
- Sir Derek Bibby - Businessman, Philanthropist, Gardener
- Sir Francis Bacon and the Baconian Cipher
- Sir George Sitwell, Eccentric Baronet
- Sir Humphry Davy FRS (1778 - 1829)
- Sir John Moores - 20th Century Entrepreneur
- Sir Patrick Moore - Astronomer, TV Presenter and Author
- Sir Thomas Holte (1571 - 1654)
- Sir William Herschel - Astronomical Pioneer
- Socrates
- Sofia Kovalevskaya - Mathematician
- Sophie Dawes - Queen of Chantilly
- Sophie Germain - Mathematician
- 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
- Bear's Foster Mother: The Story of Bruno and Ursula
- Case of Carl Von Cosel
- Children of James I
- Covenanters in 17th Century Scotland
- Curious Contradictions of PT Barnum, Showman and Philanthropist
- Execution of Thomas Harrison
- Fate of the Last Supper Thirteen - a Very Brief Addendum
- First Woman in Space - Valentina Tereshkova
- Freedom to Insult Politicians: Eugene V Debs and the Sedition Act
- Gadfly
- Green-skinned Children of Woolpit - a Medieval Mystery
- Hutchinson Family: Protest Singers of a Different Time
- Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison
- Kennedy Family and Classical Themes
- Last Escaped POW: How Georg Gaertner Spent 40 Years on the Run and Invented a Tennis Racquet
- 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
- Mona Lisa - an Enigmatic Work of Art
- Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller
- Mystery of the Egyptian Pharaoh at Niagara Falls
- 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
- Unusual Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
- 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
- Thoreau-ly Original: Henry David Thoreau and the New England Pencil
- 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
- Von Braun to Musk: A Short History of Space Pranks
- 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
- Walt Kelly v Joseph McCarthy: Okefenokee Swamp (and Pogo) to the Rescue
- What Was the Name of Napoleon's Horse?
- Why John L Burns Has a Statue in Gettysburg
- Will Geer: Grandpa Walton, Communism, and the Shakespearean Garden
- 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 Hesketh Lever - 1st Viscount Leverhulme
- William Rowan Hamilton, Mathematician
- William Shakespeare - Playwright
- William Shakespeare - Who Was He?
- William T Stead - Journalist (1849 - 1912)
- William the Conqueror
- Williamina Fleming - Astronomy Pioneer
- Winston Churchill [2]
- Winston Churchill - Film Adaptations of his Life
- Yarn Bombing the Revolution: Tricoteuses and Phrygian Caps
- Yves Saint Laurent - Iconic Fashion Designer
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