A-Level History

Biographies

Thomas Becket

Thomas Becket Biography Thomas Becket was born on 21 December 1119 or, as later historians would have it, 1120, in…

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Biography Albert Einstein was born into a non-observant Ashkenazi Jewish family on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, a…

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Biography Born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia, which would later become part of the United States…

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks Biography Although the Civil War had officially ended over 60 years before she was born, Rosa Parks was…

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Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes Biography Guy Fawkes was born on 13 April 1570 in York, in the North of England. His parents…

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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant Biography Born on 27 April 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio, Hiram Ulysses Grant was a United States…

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J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover Biography John Edgar Hoover was born on 1 January 1895 in Washington, D.C., in the United States.…

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Murder

The Murder of King Henry VI

In the long and violent saga of the Wars of the Roses, few deaths were as pivotal—or as shrouded in…

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Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindburgh Biography Charles Lindbergh was born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit, Michigan, USA, but grew up in the…

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Bugsy Siegel

Bugsy Siegel Biography Benjamin Siegel, known to the world as Bugsy, was born on 28 February 1906 in the neighbourhood…

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