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Category: Legendary People

Posted on:June 5, 2020December 13, 2020Legendary People Women's History

Legendary People: Pocahontas, The Real History

In 1995 Disney released the film Pocahontas which earnt $346 million at the box office and received two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe and a Grammy. In the subsequent years, many began to learn that Pocahontas was based on a real person who was born 400 years before the film’s release – and that her […]

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Posted on:October 31, 2018December 13, 2020Legendary People

Legendary People: Elizabeth Báthory – Mass Murderer, Vampire, Innocent?

As today is Halloween, I thought it only fitting to write about the woman who is in the Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer. She comes under the category of legendary people, not only because her alleged deeds are certainly legendary, and have inspired other stories (including possibly Dracula), but because it […]

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Posted on:July 26, 2017December 13, 2020Legendary People

Legendary People: Lady Godiva

This is the first post in a new series I’ve been wanting to start for a while now. With medieval history in particular, there are lots of figures who have taken on legendary status. Some of these may have had real, historic roots, whilst others were purely fictional, but in the centuries since people have […]

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