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Suffragettes history facts: 10 things you might not know about the Votes for Women campaigners
8 famous suffragettes and votes for women campaigners
Emily Davison: the suffragette who stepped in front of the king's horse
Who is Yasuke? The true story of the African who became Japan's first black samurai
Oleg Gordievsky: the double agent who changed the course of the Cold War
“Mad, bad and dangerous to know”: the scandalous life of Lord Byron
Q&AWho was Schinderhannes and why is he known as the ‘German Robin Hood’?
Harold Wilson: 5 facts about the Labour Party prime minister
Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudors
The real history of Mary Surratt's controversial role in the Lincoln conspiracy
Who was the real Mary Villiers?
Who was George Villiers, favourite of King James VI and I?
Robert Burns: 7 facts about the life and work of Scotland's national bard
Life of the Week: Mansa Musa. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
George Robert Twelves Hewes: the shoemaker who became a patriot
Joséphine de Beauharnais: how Napoleon's muse became empress of France
Tracking down the Nazi 'Angel of Death': one man's hunt for Josef Mengele
Eleanor Glanville: the butterfly collector
Q&AWho was Eadnoth the Staller?
Chevalièr d’Éon: the tale of an 18th-century gender non-conforming spy
Albert Einstein: facts about his life, death, education and work
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