Terence
1 bookTerence was a Roman comic playwright of the second century BC. His adaptations of Greek comedy are noted for polished dialogue and complex family plots involving […]
Historical people
People
Browse historical figures ranked by the number of books linked to them.
Tewodros II
1 bookTewodros II was emperor of Ethiopia from 1855 to 1868 and sought to reunify and centralise a politically fragmented realm. His detention of European representatives provoked […]
Thetis
1 bookThetis is a sea goddess in Greek mythology and the mother of Achilles. Forced to marry the mortal Peleus, she attempts to protect her son from […]
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, was one of the legitimised children of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford. He served Henry IV and Henry V as […]
Elgin inherited his earldom as a child and entered diplomatic and military service. As British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799, he sponsored the recording […]
Thomas Edison
1 bookThomas Edison is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. These works […]
Thomas Fairfax was Parliament’s leading field commander and the first commander-in-chief of the New Model Army. His victories, especially at Marston Moor and Naseby, were decisive […]
Thomas Gage
1 bookThomas Gage is represented in the linked historical fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, political ambition and government, and military command and battlefield decision-making. These works […]
Thomas Graham, later 1st Baron Lynedoch, entered the British Army relatively late in life after the death of his wife. He distinguished himself during the French […]
Thomas Hickey
1 bookThomas Hickey was an Irish-born soldier who served in George Washington’s Commander-in-Chief’s Guard during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War. Arrested amid fears of […]