Bruce Dickinson studied for a history degree at London’s Queen Mary College. Steve Harris didn’t go to uni – the bassist founded Iron Maiden instead – but through his lyrics he’s done more to make history come alive for young people than all academic lecturers put together.
Between them (and other Maiden members past and present), they have steered us through millennia, from the discovery of fire to the first atomic bomb. So, we thought it was high time someone collated every chapter in world history that Maiden have ever written a song about, then ordered them chronologically.
