No matter how perilous her situation, Margaret of Austria lost neither her calm nor her composure, nor even her sense of fun.
Spengler’s philosophy represented a startling synthesis of ideas – they have a pressing relevance today.
His intense faith led Gage to switch his religious allegiance during the tumultuous 17th century – he went on to have an enormous impact on Britain’s colonial future.
Willie Wilde – Oscar Wilde’s older brother – had been destined for a distinguished public life, but the siren song of dissolute journalism proved too tempting.
Pious puritan Dowsing was committed to destroying all aspects of ‘popery’ in English churches. His radicalism is a warning from history.
An isolated, austere, and fastidious heiress – Helen Sutherland dedicated herself to art.
In the tumult of revolutionary France, Comte Lanjuinais risked his life by defying the Jacobins.
The apostle for a new way of life, Ebenezer Howard dreamt of a new world of ‘garden cities’.
Admired in her day but now largely forgotten, Amanda McKittrick Ros, ‘an Elizabethan born out of her time’, according to Aldous Huxley, deserves revisiting.
Known under his religious name as Father Joseph, François du Tremblay was the mentor, ally and trusted agent of Cardinal de Richelieu, at a time when he dominated European politics.
Prokosch invented a role for the melancholic ingénue before it became fashionable.
Churchill’s faithful and most trusted political advisor was indispensable to the British war effort.
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