Historical men and women

Frances Howard was a 17 th century murderer who was lucky to escape the ultimate penalty for her crime but who caused other people t...

George Abbot was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633, during the reigns of King James I and King Charles I. He was born in...

Sir Martin Frobisher (1539-94) was an adventurer during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I who made a name for himself both as an explore...

Thomas Hooker was an important figure in the history of colonial America, and not just in Hartford, Connecticut, the city with which h...

Edward the Black Prince should have become King of England but died before his father (King Edward III), so the throne passed to his ...

Edith Cavell was a nurse who was executed by the Germans during World War I. Her death did much to excite anti-German feelings in ...

Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded in 1618. His widow had an extraordinary way of grieving for her loss. The demise of Sir Walter Ra...