People

1869–1940

Neville Chamberlain was the British prime minister from 1937 to 1940. He is chiefly remembered for the policy of appeasement and the Munich Agreement, but he […]

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c. 12th century–1294

Niccolò Polo was a Venetian merchant, the brother of Maffeo Polo and father of Marco Polo. He travelled through the Mongol world to the court of […]

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1868–1918

Nicholas II succeeded Alexander III in 1894 as emperor of Russia. His reign included the Russo-Japanese War, the Revolution of 1905, limited constitutional reform and Russia’s […]

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1796–1855

Nicholas I was emperor of Russia from 1825 to 1855, beginning his reign amid the Decembrist Revolt. He strengthened censorship, political policing and autocratic administration, intervened […]

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1155–1217

Niketas Choniates was a Byzantine historian and official whose writings are crucial for the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. His account of the Fourth Crusade […]

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1881–1948

Noel Pemberton Billing was a British aviator, aircraft designer, politician and publisher known for sensational nationalist campaigns during the First World War. His newspaper alleged a […]

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c. 220s–267

Odaenathus was the ruler of Palmyra who became Rome’s most effective commander in the east after the Persian capture of Emperor Valerian. He defeated Sasanian forces, […]

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Oda Nobunaga is represented in the linked historical fiction and non-fiction through court politics and dynastic power, military command and battlefield decision-making, and crime, espionage and […]

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c. 1745–1797

Equiano’s 1789 autobiography states that he was born in the Igbo region of West Africa, kidnapped as a child and transported through the Atlantic slave system. […]

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Oliver P. Smith is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships […]

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