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A woman named Steve
A profile of Dame Stephanie Steve Shirley, the computing pioneer who built a multimillion-pound software company staffed…
Ælfgif-who?
Medievalist Florence Scott writes short, lively biographies of early medieval English women, the queens, abbesses and la…
BlackPast
A free online reference on African American and global Black history, with thousands of biographies and historical essay…
Bram Stoker Estate
A site exploring the life and legacy of Dracula author Bram Stoker, with background on his writing, family history, and…
Dictionary of Welsh Biography
Browse over five thousand concise biographies of people who shaped Wales, from botanists and antiquaries to poets and pr…
Emily Dickinson Museum
The museum's online presence on the poet's Amherst home, sharing her poems, letters, and the reclusive life that shaped…
Flannery O'Connor - New Georgia Encyclopedia
The New Georgia Encyclopedia's entry on Flannery O'Connor, tracing her life at her Milledgeville farm, her peacocks, her…
Gilda Radner
The Jewish Women's Archive encyclopedia entry on Gilda Radner, original Saturday Night Live star, tracing her Detroit ch…
HistoryNet
A large archive of history articles from several print magazines, covering military campaigns, wars, and biographies fro…
Lilly Yokoi - Circopedia
Circopedia's entry on Lilly Yokoi, the Japanese ballerina on a golden bicycle whose dazzling trick-cycling act stunned a…
Louis-Joseph Marchand: Napoleon's Valet and Friend
The story of Louis-Joseph Marchand, Napoleon's valet in exile on St Helena, who nursed the emperor to his death, kept hi…
Map of Contemporaries
A timeline of the lifespans of famous people across world history, showing at a glance who lived at the same time as who…
Meet the Red Baron
A comprehensive multilingual site on the life and death of Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, told through timelines…
Nina Simone
The official home of Nina Simone, with her biography, albums and lyrics, sheet music, photos and films, plus a decade-by…
Random Lives
Biographical stories of randomly sampled people from across all of human history, with a button that drops you into one…
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Strange Flowers
A cabinet of human curiosities profiling eccentric aristocrats, dandies, Dada baronesses and doomed bohemians, with an a…
The Counter-Cartographer Who Mapped Hope
An essay recovering the story of Louise E. Jefferson, a pioneering Black American mapmaker whose illustrated maps of Afr…
The History Chicks
A long-running podcast about women in history, from queens and scientists to outlaws, with each episode digging into one…
The Remarkable Story of Ona Judge
An essay from the White House Historical Association on Ona Judge, who was born into slavery at Mount Vernon, served the…
The Short Tragic Life of Allegra Byron
Starting from a small memorial tablet at Harrow church, this post retells the brief, sad life of Allegra, Lord Byron's d…
The Universal Turing Machine
A collective memoir of Alan Turing by novelist Richard Beard, told through the voices of people and objects that crossed…
Thomas Cochrane in Lowercase Bullet Points
A short, funny, fast-moving biography of Thomas Cochrane, the daring naval captain Napoleon called the Sea Wolf, told en…
Was Queen Victoria the Victim of Coercive Control?
Novelist Daisy Goodwin rereads Queen Victoria's diaries to re-examine her marriage to Prince Albert, asking whether the…
What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?
A series of in-depth autobiographical interviews with philosophers about their ideas, careers, and lives inside academia…
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