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Historical people

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Browse historical figures ranked by the number of books linked to them.

T. E. Lawrence is represented in the linked non-fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, military command and battlefield decision-making, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. These […]

Tacitus was a Roman senator and historian of the first and early second centuries. His Histories and Annals examine imperial rule from the Julio-Claudians through the […]

c. 17th century BCE–c. 1540s BCE

Tetisheri was a matriarch of the late Seventeenth Dynasty royal family. Remembered and honoured by later descendants, she connected the Theban rulers who resisted the Hyksos […]

1945–2026

Theseus was the legendary king and hero of Athens best known for killing the Minotaur in Crete. His myths also include the unification of Attica, wars […]

1704–1747

Thomas Pellow was a Cornish sailor captured by Barbary corsairs in 1715 and enslaved in Morocco. He spent more than two decades in the service of […]

c. 460s BCE–396 BCE

Thucydides was an Athenian general and historian of the Peloponnesian War. After exile following the loss of Amphipolis, he produced an analytical account of strategy, plague, […]

Tomyris is represented in the linked non-fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, exploration, travel and cultural encounter, and art, learning and intellectual life. These works […]

Umar ibn al-Khattab is represented in the linked non-fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, religion, belief and institutional authority, and court politics and dynastic power. These […]

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