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15 minutes of fame
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General Early Modern
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Margaret MacMillan chooses Babur
Ancient Greece
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Michael Scott chooses Kleisthenes
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Hannah Greig chooses Hannah Humphrey
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Rediscovering forgotten figures
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Babur
Dynasty founder and diarist
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General Early Modern
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Caroline Dodds Pennock chooses Malintzin
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Hannah Humphrey
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Kleisthenes
Father of Athenian democracy
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Aina Forbes Bonetta
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Malintzin
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Charley Wilson
Victorian transgender working-class man
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Jerry Brotton chooses Marie Tharp
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Rana Mitter chooses Tsiang Tingfu
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Janina Ramirez chooses Hildegard of Bingen
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Suzannah Lipscomb chooses Marguerite de Navarre
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Queen Tiye
Overshadowed ancient Egyptian royal
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Marie Tharp
Ground-breaking cartographer
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Franz Nopcsa
Hungarian adventurer and palaeontologist
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Hildegard of Bingen
Medieval polymath
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