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So who was the woman in Intuitive experiment #19?  The woman in this experiment is Vita Sackville-West, noted English poet, novelist, and garden designer. In later years she became known as much for her multifaceted sense of gender and sexuality as for her literary...

So who was the man in Intuitive experiment #18? As many of you noted, he was a very intelligent and thoughtful man, with a great interest in how an ideal society should be structured. But he was a complex and contradictory person too, and his own life choices did not...

One of the things I really love about doing these experiments is that we sometimes get to learn or find out more about some amazing figures from history... So who was the woman in Intuitive Experiment #17? It was Sophia (Sophie) Scholl, a young German woman who...

Well done to everyone who took part in this experiment – there were a lot of intuitive hits among the comments! The woman in the photo is Ida B Wells, a prominent journalist, newspaper editor and African-American civil rights activist. Upbringing Ida B Wells was born...

Well done to everyone who had a go at this experiment - there were plenty of intuitive hits among the comments! The woman in the photo is Dolours Price who was an IRA (Irish Republican Army) terrorist. Her role in the organization involved helping to 'disappear'...

Well done to everyone who had a go at this experiment - some of you did well with this one! The man in the photo is Karl Ove Knausgaard, a novelist who is best known for his six-volume autobiography entitled My Struggle which was widely-read and critically acclaimed...

Who was the woman presented in intuitive experiment #13? She is Helen Elizabeth Milner, a New Zealand woman who was convicted of murdering her husband Philip Nesbit in 2013 and sentenced to life in prison. According to prosecutors, she put a massive dose of an...

So who was the woman in the picture? Her name was Nancy Wake and she was the most decorated female British SOE agent of World War Two. In particular, she was involved in fighting alongside the French Resistance and sabotaging the Nazis. She was nicknamed “the white...

Well done to everyone who had a go at this experiment! (I've posted some tips for you at the end of this article.) Here are the results: The man in the picture is Sir Alan Sugar, a self-made British business mogul, who has an estimated fortune of £770m ($1.14 billion...