Historical men and women

A small building on top of a sandstone outcrop in Chester has an interesting – if unlikely – legend attached to it. This is known as th...

The name John Hardyng might perhaps be better known if one of his employers, King Henry V, had not died at the age of 35 and thus rende...

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) is widely credited for having introduced tobacco to England, having played a leading role in establis...

Franklin Pierce, who served as the 14 th President of the United States from 1853 to 1857, is generally regarded as one of the wors...

Duke Ernst of Bavaria-Munich was very worried about his son and heir, Albert. He wanted to make sure that Albert would make a good m...

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) was a Norwegian explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole, which he did in December 191...

On 10 th June 1190 Frederick Barbarossa, the Holy Roman Emperor (i.e. the ruler of German-speaking Europe) died in a river in Turke...