Bardas Phokas the Younger
2 booksBardas Phokas the Younger was a Byzantine general who rebelled against Basil II and was proclaimed emperor in 987. His revolt threatened Constantinople and helped prompt […]
Historical people
People
Browse historical figures ranked by the number of books linked to them.
Basil II
2 booksBasil II was Byzantine emperor from 976 to 1025 and one of the empire’s longest-reigning rulers. He defeated major aristocratic revolts, expanded imperial control in the […]
Benedict Arnold
2 booksBenedict Arnold was one of the Continental army’s most energetic commanders during the American Revolutionary War. He played important roles at Fort Ticonderoga, Lake Champlain and […]
Benjamin Disraeli
2 booksBenjamin Disraeli was a British Conservative politician, novelist and twice prime minister during the reign of Queen Victoria. He helped reshape the Conservative Party, promoted the […]
Bernabò Visconti
2 booksBernabò Visconti was a fourteenth-century lord of Milan and a member of the powerful Visconti family. His rule was marked by dynastic ambition, military pressure and […]
Buffalo Bill
2 booksBuffalo Bill is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. These works […]
Buffalo Hump
2 booksBuffalo Hump was a leading war chief of the Penateka Comanche during the mid-nineteenth century. He helped organise the Great Raid of 1840, in which Comanche […]
Caesarion
2 booksCaesarion was the son of Cleopatra VII and, according to Cleopatra, Julius Caesar. He was made co-ruler of Egypt and presented as heir to Ptolemaic and […]
Carrie Winder McGavock
2 booksCarrie Winder McGavock is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty, military command and battlefield decision-making, and social change and the […]
Catherine Carey
2 booksCatherine Carey was the daughter of Mary Boleyn and William Carey and a first cousin of Elizabeth I, although rumours have sometimes suggested that Henry VIII […]