Curated category
Anti-monarchists
- Percy Bysshe ShelleyOn a summer day in 1804, Percy Bysshe Shelley stood before the wooden paling fence at Eton College. He held a bag of gunpowder he had stolen from the school…
- Lord ByronGeorge Gordon Byron entered the world on the 22nd of January 1788 on Holles Street in London. His birthplace now sits beneath a branch of the department…
- Ruhollah KhomeiniRuhollah Musavi Khomeini was born on the 17th of May 1900 in the small town of Khomeyn. His father Mustafa Musawi died when Ruhollah was only two years old.
- Oliver CromwellOliver Cromwell was born on the 25th of April 1599 in Huntingdon to Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth Steward. His family estate derived from his…
- Vladimir LeninVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born on the 22nd of April 1870 in Streletskaya Ulitsa, a street in the city of Simbirsk. He grew up as the third child among…