Curated category
Alumni of the University of London
- Mahatma GandhiAt 5:17 p.m. on the 30th of January 1948, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was walking through the garden of Birla House in Delhi, his grandnieces beside him, on…
- Nelson MandelaRolihlahla Mandela was born on the 18th of July 1918, in the village of Mvezo, and the name his father chose carried a warning.
- Neville ChamberlainNeville Chamberlain stepped off a plane at Heston Aerodrome on the 30th of September 1938 and waved a single sheet of paper at the waiting crowd.
- H. G. WellsIn 1898, Joseph Conrad hailed a fellow writer with the phrase "O Realist of the Fantastic!" The man he addressed was Herbert George Wells, born in Bromley…
- Francis CrickOn his death bed, Francis Crick was editing a manuscript. "He was editing a manuscript on his death bed, a scientist until the bitter end," said his…
- John SnowJohn Snow removed a pump handle on Broad Street and changed how the world thinks about disease. The year was 1854, and cholera was killing people across…
- John Lynch (historian)John Lynch was born on the 11th of January 1927 in Boldon, a small town in County Durham, in the north of England. By the time he died on the 4th of April…
- George SorosGeorge Soros was born György Schwartz on the 12th of August 1930 in Budapest, into a prosperous Jewish family that would spend the next decade and a half…
- B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar was born on the 14th of April 1891 in the town and military cantonment of Mhow, as the 14th and last child of an army officer.
- Geoffrey EltonGeoffrey Elton arrived in Britain in February 1939 as a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia, a teenage boy named Gottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg.
- Ronald CoaseRonald Harry Coase was born on the 29th of December 1910 in Willesden, a suburb of London, and he would live to the age of 102 - long enough to see ideas he…
- Richard AldingtonRichard Aldington was born Edward Godfree Aldington in Portsmouth on the 8th of July 1892, into a household where books lined every wall and both parents…
- Frank McLynnFrank McLynn was born Francis James McLynn on the 29th of August 1941, and by any measure he became one of Britain's most prolific writer-scholars.