Favourite historical figure
 

part of the revive general interest movement, who is your favourite history figure? It doens't have to be someone who you look up to or anything like that, just someone you find interesting.


These are the two who probably interest me the most, and the ones I have read the most about.

Michael Collins, did great things for Ireland (eventhough he lost the 6 counties) and he's a Cork man

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...kXhFMcbr6MB-4z

emmeline pankhurst

Mary Queen of Scots.

Wellington > Napoleon

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...WULLS7dXmCcS2v

don't be silly

the original ganster

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...Z1MFoyHDxNY-wk

Caligula seemed delightfully crazy.

I'm generally fascinated by the Roman empire... Antony and Cleopatra's fault.

Charles Darwin
http://bluedotconsulting.co.uk/blog/...in-10-note.jpg

looks like queen elizabeth

Cleopatra

A toss up for me between Elizabeth I and Mother Theresa, two inspirational, gutsy women.

Pope Alexander IV/Rodrigo Borgia - The Most Corrupt Pope

http://www.sarapoole.com/blog1/wp-co...Alexander1.jpg

The only picture I could find that wasn't Jeremy Irons or Assassins Creed :suspect:

^^

definitely in my top ten.

Winston Churchill.

Not a particular figure but the Viking era is my favourite

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...l_Marx_001.jpg

Karl Marx

Aul Dev :lovedup:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._c_1922-30.jpg

Another great one

Alexander the Great

http://wso.williams.edu/~junterek/images/alex1.jpg

Medieval history is the best

agreed, it is what i am studying in university

Diogenes of Sinope was pretty cool as well

Controversial

erm Engels > Marx tbh

Marx was too hypocritical

Engels was the man with the money, they were both bloody arrogant really

Would of loved to see Boudy in action

http://www.radioanywhere.co.uk/uploa...6.boudicca.jpg

not a fan of either, really. Besides the Communist Manifesto, Marx's writing is really boring

honorable mention to Vlad

http://listsoplenty.com/blog/wp-cont...er-281x300.jpg

Very boring yeah :laugh: I've read some of his stuff and it's always a bit of a chore

Ivan the Terrible was an interesting chap

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...RESSG_1YNYmNxQ

Seriously though nothing would beat being a viking invading places in long boats

can't beat good old Peter the Great, revolutionized Russia and all that

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk...ter_close2.jpg

Nathan you would like the lads Askold and Dir, viking rulers

http://www.trueknowledge.com/images/...d88a3ec9e2.jpg

History is going to be such a boring subject in the future

Stolypin

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._LOC_07327.jpg

Did my coursework on him last year, started off thinking he'd done a pretty good job but by the end of it I'd realised he was actually pretty sh*t. He tried though, he tried.

underrated by many history fans

William the Conqueror

http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/images/williamsmall.jpg

Wasn't he a bit of a bastard :suspect: haven't learnt anything about him since I was about 11

all we did in my a level history is nazi germany, women during different periods of history, and the welfare state and all that crap

and for some stupid I chose to do American History (roosevelt etc) for my project

can hardly remember any of it. Failed it all anyway cause I didn't try

not really anymore than others. Henry VIII was worse

Yeah I did stuff like that in my first year of A-level, preferred the second year where we did Russian history and modern warfare from Napoleon to WWII

Ah right, most of the history I know is modern stuff tbh