Our writers profile individuals, some of them overlooked, and explore how they shaped the world as we know it.
Epicharis – a former slave and a foreigner – participated in the doomed Pisonian conspiracy against the Emperor Nero. In Tacitus' depiction of her and in her rich after-life in wes..
Inventor, sculptor, and taxidermist by trade, Carl Akeley was an early pioneer of wildlife photography. His life's lessons still echo in the effort to conserve wildlife.
Philip Thicknesse, 18th century writer, libertine, and scandal maker, found joy in his countryside retreat - a grotto inspired by the romantic fashion for 'ornamental hermits'.
A great lover of children and social reform, Janusz Korczak's heroic death was matched by his zeal for educating the poorest of Polish society.
After unpromising beginnings and innumerable controversies, Pittacus, seventh-century ruler of Mytilene on Lesbos, should be remembered as one of the great leaders of his age.
This astonishingly inventive, often radical, composer and musician, Priaulx Rainier, whose influence, imagination, and friendship were cherished by her artistic contemporaries – Ba..
Driven by a desire for intellectual and spiritual truth, Raïssa Maritain's writings search for peace and justice - but are sadly forgotten in our own time.
'Good King René' is remembered for the chivalry of his words and deeds, despite his numerous setbacks in the cruel arena of medieval politics.
Dreamer, looter, pyromaniac, fantasist, Edward Daniel Clarke brought back from Egypt the single most important find in the history of Egyptology - the Rosetta Stone.
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