Historical men and women

“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” That is the conclusion of W B Yeats’s ...

Jenny Diver was born in about 1650 and died on the gallows in 1710 after a lifetime of thievery, mostly in London, in which her cleve...

Legends about King Arthur and his knights are extremely popular, and many people are convinced that the stories are based on historic...

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...