Historical figures in England
The atlas holds 12 people and 14 moments here, from 1805 to 2013. The most recorded lives are Margaret Thatcher, John Cornforth and Charles Darwin. Among them Writers, Philosophers and Scientists, across the Space Age and the Cold War.
Notable people
Charles Darwin
in 1881
1 moment here
English naturalist, geologist, and biologist whose observations during the global voyage of HMS Beagle and subsequent research led to his theory of…
Doris Lessing
in 1987
1 moment here
British novelist Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah, Iran, grew up in Southern Rhodesia, and moved to London in 1949.…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1914
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Heinrich Heine
in 1827
1 moment here
German poet, essayist, journalist, and literary critic. Born in Düsseldorf, Heine studied in Bonn, Göttingen, and Berlin, traveled widely in Germany…
Jane Austen
in 1805
1 moment here
English novelist Jane Austen spent her life in southern England, principally in Hampshire, Bath, Southampton, Chawton, and Winchester.…
John Cornforth
from 1975 to 2013
2 moments here
Australian-British organic chemist and 1975 Nobel Prize laureate, noted for elucidating the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions.…
Luísa Diogo
in 2005
1 moment here
Mozambican economist and FRELIMO politician who served as Minister of Planning and Finance and as Mozambique’s first female prime minister, from 2004…
Margaret Thatcher
in 1984
2 moments here
British stateswoman Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the first woman to hold the…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1878
1 moment here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Rudyard Kipling
in 1897
1 moment here
English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Bombay, Kipling spent his childhood in India and England, worked as a journalist…
Sydney Brenner
in 1979
1 moment here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
Virginia Woolf
in 1910
1 moment here
English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Moments
- 1805 Autumn stay in Worthing Jane Austen
- 1827 English journey at Brighton Heinrich Heine
- 1878 Student residence at Medina Villas Rabindranath Tagore
- 1881 Visits Anthony Rich at Worthing Charles Darwin
- 1897 Move to Rottingdean Rudyard Kipling
- 1910 Winter stay in Lewes Virginia Woolf
- 1914 Childhood placement near Worthing Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1975 Royal Society Research Professorship at Sussex John Cornforth
- 1979 Korner Lecture Sydney Brenner
- 1984 Brighton conference address Margaret Thatcher
- 1984 Survived Brighton bombing Margaret Thatcher
- 1987 World Science Fiction Convention appearance Doris Lessing
- 2005 Labour Party Conference speech Luísa Diogo
- 2013 Death in Sussex John Cornforth