Our writers profile individuals, some of them overlooked, and explore how they shaped the world as we know it.
An artist and occultist at the turn of the century, Moina Mathers’ life is a celebration of female power and radical self-expression.
The violinist-composer who mixed the sacred and profane in his fantastical music is a lost genius of the 17th century.
The first female Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University was a trailblazer for women's achievement in a nascent meritocratic society.
Unfairly maligned in her lifetime, Aspasia of Miletus, wife of Pericles and friend to philosophers, was a remarkable woman in her own right.
The Genevan-born French financier was a political visionary, fomenting radical reform whilst battling the forces of globalisation, capitalism and extremism.
As chairman of JP Morgan and of the US Council on Foreign Relations, Leffingwell epitomised the public-service ethos of America's mid-century elite.
Early champion of the grotesque style, Tobias Smollett's life was as raucous as his literary creations.
The tragedy of Mary of Burgundy, snubbed heiress to one of Europe's great dynasties, echoes down the ages.
The German-born Jewish emigré found riches as a clever banker in inter-war Amsterdam. He was soon to find a higher purpose for his accounting skills: the fight against fascism in E..
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