History hero

Lyndon B Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

My history hero: Lyndon Johnson (1908–73)

Portrait of William Shakespeare by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

My history hero: William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Guillaume Apollinaire and his wife, Jacqueline Kolb, on the terrace of the boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, France, in 1918. (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

My history hero: Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)

Bhimrao Ambedkar, May 1946. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891–1956)

President Ronald Reagan at Durenberger Republican convention rally, 1982. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Ronald Reagan (1911–2004)

Mario Lanza c1950. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Mario Lanza (1921-59)

Portrait of Henry V of England

My history hero: Henry V

John F Kennedy pictured in 1957

My history hero: John F Kennedy (1917–63)

An undated portrait of Hypatia

My history hero: Hypatia (cAD 370–415)

Portrait of King Henry VIII

My history hero: Henry VIII (1491-1547)

The mahogany wooden interior of the Glasgow School of Art

My history hero: Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928)

Artist Leonora Carrington

My history hero: Leonora Carrington (1917–2011)

Emmeline Pankhurst

My history hero: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928)

Jane Austen

My history hero Jane Austen (1775–1817)

John Sergeant

My history hero: Arthur Ransome