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    Historical Figures

    Historical Figures

    Historical Figures

    ratings:
    Length:
    66 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Big lives, little-known facts. Dig up what you don’t know about the icons you do know! Unexpected anecdotes, real personalities, lasting impacts… Historical Figures is a Spotify Original from Parcast.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 66 episodes

    Title

    Best of 2019: Nefertiti

    Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: This famous Queen ruled E...

    44 minutes
    		Dec 25, 2019

    Father Miguel Hidalgo

    For centuries, Mexico lived under the rule of Spain. In that time, a discriminatory cas...

    48 minutes
    		Dec 11, 2019

    Pope Gregory XIII

    Best remembered for his invention of the calendar we still use today, Pope Gregory XIII...

    49 minutes
    		Nov 27, 2019

    Mansa Musa

    This 14th Century sultan of Mali became renowned for being the richest man who ever liv...

    48 minutes
    		Nov 13, 2019

    Professor Margaret Murray

    A first-wave feminist of the 1800s and 1900s, Professor Margaret Murray was known as bo...

    47 minutes
    		Oct 30, 2019

    Toussaint L'Ouverture

    In the 1790s, Toussaint L’Ouverture emerges as a leading member of the most successful ...

    57 minutes
    		Oct 16, 2019

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf married as a teenager and was a mother of four before she had a c...

    52 minutes
    		Oct 02, 2019

    Rosa Parks

    In December 1955, Rosa Parks made history by refusing to give up her seat to a white pa...

    41 minutes
    		Sep 18, 2019

    Louis Pasteur

    Anyone who has ever enjoyed a wine and cheese night owes their good time to Louis Paste...

    45 minutes
    		Sep 04, 2019

    Margaret Thatcher

    Margaret Thatcher was Britain's first woman Prime Minister. For more than a decade, she...

    53 minutes
    		Aug 21, 2019