The Death of Amy Robsart
Amy Robsart was the cause, deliberately or otherwise, of a great scandal in the early years of Elizabeth I’s reign that would curtail the …
John Everett Millais
A founder member along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Henry Holman Hunt among others of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood that sought to …
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
Born in London on 7 March 1802, the son of an engraver the young Edwin Landseer's talent was such that he had already exhibited at the …
John William Waterhouse
Born in Rome on 6 April 1849, the son of artists it was almost inevitable that the young Waterhouse would become one himself and so it was …
Hanna Reitsch
Unlike female flyers in the Soviet Union Hanna Reitsch never flew a combat mission but then as Nazi Germany’s premier Test Pilot she was …
Henry VII: The Forgotten Tudor
He killed the tyrant, usurped the throne and in doing so ended the Wars of the Roses changing England forever, yet, unlike the Dynasty he …
Nestor Makhno: The Forgotten Revolutionary
He is barely remembered now even in radical circles and perhaps only mentioned in passing but Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, the poor peasant …
Sir Peter Lely: A Court Painter
He was born Pieter van der Faes on 14 September 1618 in Soest, Germany, but his parents were Dutch and he was raised in Haarlem where he …
Queen Henrietta Maria
Charles I married Princess Henrietta Maria of France by proxy on 1 May, 1625, just weeks after he ascended to the throne of England. He was …
Beau Brummell: Dandy
He was a fashion icon, the first of his kind, a man known for little more than the clothes he wore and the manner of his being – …
Highwaymen: ‘Stand and Deliver!’
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. The …
Tolpuddle Martyrs
The fate of the Tolpuddle Martyrs has long formed a central plank of socialist propaganda, a cause celebre around which all factions of the …