A-Level History

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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