Myth, legend, and mystery in the Oxford DNB

• Iconic lives: whose nation?
• Mythical lives: where do they come from?
• Legendary lives: did they really exist?
• Mystery and anonymous lives: who were they?
• Afterlives: should we believe in ghosts?
• Myth, biography, and history

References

See also

• Britannia (1st–21st cent.)
• John Bull (1712–)
• Joan Bull (1928–1946)
• Thomas Atkins (d. 1794)
• Ned Ludd (1811–1816)
• Francis Swing (1830–1831)
• Fergus I (d. c.305 BC)
• Bega [St Bega] (late 7th cent.)
• Guy of Warwick (c.930)
• Leir (c.820 BC)
• Sir John Mandeville (c.1357)
• Piltdown Man (4 million BC)
• Robin Hood (late 12th–13th cent.)
• Friar Tuck (15th cent.)
• Arthur (in or before 6th cent.)
• Merlin (6th cent.)
• Mother Shipton (1530)
• Sweeney Todd (1784)
• Jack the Ripper (1888)
• Spring-Heeled Jack (1837–1838)
• Sawney Beane (15th–16th cent.)
• Anonymous IV (1250–1280)
• Junius (1768–1773)
• Walter (b. early 1820s, d. in or after 1894)
• Lindow Man (1st cent.?)
• Sutton Hoo burial (early 7th cent.)
• the Unknown Warrior (d. 1914?)
• Louisa Coppin (1845–1849)
• Elizabeth Crofts (b. c.1535)
• Elizabeth Parsons (1749–1807)