AvatarHistoryExtraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMata Hari: exotic dancer, femme fatale, traitor and spyhistoryextra.com - Kev LochunDutch exotic dancer Margaretha ‘Gretha’ MacLeod – better known as Mata Hari – has the dubious reputation of being the world’s deadliest female secret …
AvatarHistoryExtraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo“The rankest traitor in all England?” Walter Ralegh on trialhistoryextra.com - Elinor EvansIt is a curious fact that when Sir Walter Ralegh was finally executed – on 29 October 1618 – he had been legally dead for 15 years. Even by …
AvatarHistoryExtraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAda Lovelace: a visionary of computinghistoryextra.com - Emma MasonBorn in the early 19th century, Ada Lovelace had a fascination with science and mathematics that defied the expectations of her class and gender at …
AvatarHistoryExtraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIn profile: the life and death of Marie Antoinettehistoryextra.com - Jessica HopeFrom nation’s sweetheart to public enemy, what led Marie Antoinette to the guillotine? We bring you the facts about her life and death… Born: 2 …
AvatarHistoryExtraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow should history remember Fidel Castro?historyextra.com - Elinor EvansFive historians offer their verdicts on Fidel Castro, who died in November 2016… Castro was a revolutionary who symbolised his age. In December 1956, …
AvatarHistoryExtraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMarie Curie (1867–1934): her life, achievements and legacyhistoryextra.com - Elinor EvansAs Marie Curie tops our poll, 100 Women Who Changed the World, we tell you everything you need to know about the scientist who paid the ultimate …
AvatarHistoryExtraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPeter Hain on Nelson Mandela: “A symbol for good leadership in the world”historyextra.com - Elinor Evans“I was with him on the eve of his election,” says Peter Hain, talking about the time he spent with Nelson Mandela on the night of the landslide …
AvatarHistoryExtraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMandela: the 20th century’s greatest leader?historyextra.com - Matt EltonDavid Killingray: Mandela was born in the rural eastern Cape, a Xhosa speaker (as were his later political colleagues Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu) …
AvatarHistoryExtraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoKitty Marion: The actress who became a 'terrorist'bbc.co.uk - By Megha MohanWhen a student researching in the archives of a London museum read the unpublished memoirs of a suffragette bomber, she began to wonder if the history of the movement had been sanitised. The suffragettes may have won the vote for women, but some of them, she argues, were terrorists. Fern Riddell …
AvatarHistoryExtraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoYour guide to Karl Marx: who was he, what was the Communist Manifesto and why is he important?historyextra.com - Rachel DinningKarl Marx was a German economist, sociologist and philosopher. He was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier – which was then part of the Prussian Rhineland – …
AvatarHistoryExtraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoFrancis Willughby - the unsung hero of ornithologysciencefocus.com - Tim BirkheadWhen it comes to the study of birds, John Ray might be the ornithologist that springs to mind, but it was his friend, the little-known Francis …
AvatarHistoryExtraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoRemembering Professor Stephen Hawkingsciencefocus.com - trueWe chat to four people who spent time with Professor Stephen Hawking, the Galaxy’s best-known scientist, to find out more about his life, his work, …