Historical men and women

When George Washington was six years old he was given a hatchet, which he used to inflict serious damage on his father’s young cherry ...

History is full of stories that “everybody knows” but which later turn out not to be true after all. One of these concerns the assassi...

King John of England (reigned 1199 to 1216) is widely regarded as one of the country’s “bad kings”. This was largely due to his tyrann...

Olympe de Gouges lost her head to the guillotine on 3 rd November 1793. Her mistake had been to question whether the French Revolutio...

Would the motor car have made its impact on the world at the time it did without the exploits of a woman named Bertha Benz? One has to...

Queen Mary I died on 17 th November 1558 at the age of 42. Her reputation as “Bloody Mary” was well deserved, following her determinat...

Which book by Charles Darwin (1809-82) sold most copies during his lifetime? “The Origin of Species”? No. The answer might surprise you...