Alexander Hamilton
2 booksAlexander Hamilton was an American revolutionary officer, constitutional advocate and first secretary of the treasury. He served on Washington’s staff, helped write the Federalist Papers and […]
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Alfred Dreyfus
2 booksAlfred Dreyfus was a French army officer whose wrongful conviction for treason in 1894 became one of the defining political scandals of the French Third Republic. […]
Allan Breck Stewart
2 booksAllan Breck Stewart was a Scottish soldier and Jacobite who became the principal suspect in the Appin Murder of 1752 and later lived in exile in […]
Alv Erlingsson
2 booksAlv Erlingsson was a Norwegian nobleman and privateer active in the late thirteenth century. After conflict with the Norwegian crown and regional rivals, he operated in […]
Amanirenas
2 booksAmanirenas was a kandake, or queen, of the Kingdom of Kush who resisted Roman expansion into Nubia in the late first century BC. Her campaigns against […]
Ambrosius Aurelianus
2 booksAmbrosius Aurelianus was a post-Roman British leader credited by Gildas with organising resistance after a period of severe Saxon attacks. He is one of the few […]
Amy Robsart
2 booksAmy Robsart was the wife of Robert Dudley, later Earl of Leicester, and her death in 1560 became a major scandal at the Elizabethan court. Because […]
Anne Askew
2 booksAnne Askew was an English poet, Protestant reformer and religious witness who openly challenged traditional Catholic doctrines during the final years of Henry VIII’s reign. Arrested […]
Anne Basset
2 booksAnne Basset was an English gentlewoman from a prominent West Country family who served at the court of Henry VIII. She became a maid of honour […]
Anthony Babington
2 booksAnthony Babington was an English Catholic gentleman executed in 1586 for his role in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, […]