An extremely popular writer both in her lifetime and in the millenia since, Murasaki Shikibu is credited as writing the world's first n...

It's a commonly held belief that Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America. This is wrong on so, so many levels. Firstly, the A...

Influential in four countries, Queen of both Sweden and Denmark, mother of two great kings, and instrumental in one of the greatest sea bat...

Though armed with only a scant education, Hildegard of Bingen would go on to be the world's first known composer, a prestigious scienti...

When Rome fell Europe was thrust into the so named 'Dark Ages'. However, while the Europeans were scrabbling around, getting the pl...

Erik the Red was a larger than life dude who knew how to leave a mark. He got kicked out of Iceland, and settled a previously uninhabited¹ ...