People

William of Rubruck was a Flemish Franciscan friar who travelled across the Eurasian steppe to the Mongol Empire in 1253–1255 on a mission associated with Louis […]

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1729–1788

William Tryon was a British soldier and colonial governor who served in North Carolina and New York. In North Carolina he confronted the Regulator movement and […]

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1770–1850

Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in 1770 and was educated in the Lake District and at Cambridge. His experiences in revolutionary France and his close intellectual […]

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died 1560

Will Somers was the court fool of Henry VIII. He appears in household records and later cultural memory as a licensed entertainer who could use humour […]

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Winfield Scott is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. These […]

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1856–1924

Woodrow Wilson was president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. His administration enacted major domestic reforms, led the country into the First World War […]

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1776–1811

Yashwantrao Holkar was a Maratha ruler and commander who resisted both rival Maratha leaders and the British East India Company. He defeated forces of Scindia and […]

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Yonaguska is represented in the linked historical fiction through social change and the pressures of ordinary life and political ambition and government. These works approach the […]

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Zachary Taylor was a United States Army officer whose victories during the Mexican-American War made him a national political figure. He had previously served in the […]

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240–275

Zenobia was queen of Palmyra and ruled its expanding state in the name of her young son Vaballathus during the third-century Roman crisis. Her armies took […]

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