Adolf Hitler
Here was a man always near the top in any list of real life Villains, Adolph Hitler, who was responsible for killing millions of innocent men women and children during World War II. Born on the 20th of April 1889 in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary, he was raised near Linz. He moved to Vienna […]
Winston Churchill
Many consider him to be the Greatest Englishman of the 20th century, mainly due to what he did to lead the country to victory in World War 2. However, until he became Prime Minister, for nearly 40 years he was a contentious figure in British life. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on the […]
Napoleon Bonaparte
One of the greatest military leaders in history and emperor of France, he conquered much of Europe. Napoleon Bonaparte was born on 15th of August 1769 in Ajaccio, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. He was one of eight surviving children and his family were minor Corsican nobility, with his father being a lawyer. Even […]
Queen Victoria
She reigned over the British Empire for over 63 years and 216 days and oversaw a period of drastic political, industrial, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom. Alexandrina Victoria was born on the 24th May 1819. She was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until […]
IK Brunel – was he our greatest engineer?
He has been described as one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history, one of the 19th-century engineering giants. One of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, a man who changed Victorian England with his designs and ingenious constructions, which we can still see today. Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western […]
Julius Caesar, another broken dictator?
Julius Caesar was a dictator, and that is why he was assassinated by a group of senators on the Ides of March of 44 BC at a meeting of the Senate at the Curia of Pompey of the Theatre of Pompey in Rome. They obviously didn’t like him as 60 senators were involved as they […]