Margaret Paston
2 booksMargaret Paston was a fifteenth-century Norfolk gentlewoman and one of the principal writers represented in the Paston Letters. She managed estates, finances, servants and legal disputes […]
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Margaret Thatcher
2 booksMargaret Thatcher was the British prime minister from 1979 to 1990. Her governments pursued privatisation, reduced trade-union power, confronted inflation and unemployment, won the Falklands War […]
Martín Cortés
2 booksMartín Cortés, often called el Mestizo, was the son of Hernán Cortés and Malinche and one of the best-known children born from the early Spanish conquest […]
Mary Seymour
2 booksMary Seymour was the only child of Catherine Parr and Thomas Seymour, born in August 1548. Her mother died soon after childbirth, and her father was […]
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
2 booksMaximilian married Mary of Burgundy in 1477 and gained a decisive interest in the Burgundian Netherlands. After Mary’s death he defended the inheritance of their children, […]
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
2 booksMiguel Hidalgo y Costilla was a Mexican priest whose 1810 call to revolt, remembered as the Grito de Dolores, began the Mexican War of Independence. He […]
Mikhail Gorbachev
2 booksMikhail Gorbachev led the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 and introduced the policies of perestroika and glasnost in an effort to reform a stagnating system. […]
Miltiades
2 booksMiltiades was an Athenian aristocrat and general best known for commanding at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. He had earlier ruled in the Thracian […]
Muhammad Ali of Egypt
2 booksMuhammad Ali of Egypt is represented in the linked historical fiction and non-fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, political ambition and government, and military command and […]
Muhammad XII of Granada
2 booksMuhammad XII of Granada was the last Nasrid ruler of Granada, known in Spanish tradition as Boabdil. His reign was divided by civil war within the […]