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The chirpy Londoner who charmed her way into the court and affections of King Charles II  more  

John Brown was hated and admired in equal measure for his militant campaigns against slavery in the mid-19th century. Donna Catapano (@Ms_Catapano) explains how, over 160 years sin...  more  

The Welsh-Norman servant girl who slaughtered 70 men in one afternoon  more  

The larger than life woman who hurtled over the edge of Niagara falls in a barrel - What else would you do to celebrate your 63rd birthday?   more  

War hero, dazzling intellect, seducer of goddesses - is there anything Odysseus couldn't do?   more  

The Irish revolutionary who shot to prominence in his 20s as the antagoniser-in-chief of the British Empire, but was eventually felled by his own countrymen  more  

A modest Cornwall woman caused a storm in early 20th Century Britain with her crusade against one of her nation's more dubious creations - concentration camps  more  

The late 19th and early 20th Century saw the rise to prominence of numerous feminist heroes. But you'd be hard pushed to find many people who have heard of Amy Dillwyn, the Welsh i...  more  

Being caught in one atomic bomb attack is bad luck. To be caught in a second attack a few days later is catastrophic luck. To survive both? That's the luck of Tsutomu Yamaguchi...  more  

The podcaster and YouTube host died suddenly this week at the age of 36. Though his primary focus was politics and ours is history, we still saw him as an inspiration and have take...  more