Bulgarian-born writer; studied Chemistry in Vienna before emigrating to England in 1938; wrote essays, plays, autobiography and a study of crowds, but made his name with the novel, Die Blendung (1935) ...

Fashion designer David Holah co-founded the era-defining clothing label BodyMap in 1982, together with Stevie Stewart. Their daring and gender ambiguous designs were an immediate hit, hailed as 'the ...

Maxwell Armfield studied art under Arthur Gaskin and Henry Payne. He was active in Los Angeles in 1918 and the following year moved to Berkeley. While there he wrote The Syntax of Art, Rhythmic Shape ...

John Harris, artist and facsimilist, was the son of watercolour painter John Harris (1767-1832). Harris studied at the Royal Academy where he specialised in miniatures. He exhibited occasionally ...

Tewodros II (or 'Theodore') was a Coptic Christian ruler of Abyssinia from 1855. Like many rulers, he won power through defeating his rivals through war, but he continued to face internal revolt and ...

Author and fashion designer; founded and ran Arabella Pollen Ltd, a fashion design company (1981-94); began writing in 1995 and is the author of All about Men (1997) and B Movies, Blue Love (1999).

Born in 1949, John Goto studied as a painter as well as a photographer. He held his first solo exhibition at the Photographers' Gallery, London in 1981 but subsequently worked and exhibited ...

Of Jewish Italian ancestry, Baron Sterling Henry Nahum was born in Manchester. He took up documentary film-making in 1933, before establishing a photographic studio three years later in London. He was ...

Latry worked at Claridges in London during the First World War, and in 1919 succeeded Escoffier as maître chef at the Savoy Hotel, a post he held until 1942. Renowned for the extravagance of his ...

Courtaulds Professor of Polymer Chemistry at Durham and leader of the University of Durham Nanotechnology programme. Feast was formerly the Director of the IRC (Interdisciplinary Research Centre) in ...

Olaudah Equiano was born in Essaka, in what is now southeastern Nigeria. He was kidnapped into slavery at the age of eleven and put to work for a number of different masters in America, the West ...

Born into slavery around 1743, and known as Toussaint de Bréda on the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, Toussaint L'Ouverture's leadership of the Haitian Revolution has made him an ...