History's Finest (short story)

 was a short story published in September 2020 in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2021. It was narrated by Graham O'Brien.

Summary
Graham O'Brien looks back on the "cracking people from Earth's history" that he has met in the flesh thanks to the Doctor and investigates what happened to each of them after their encounter with the time-travellers in the blue box.

Characters

 * Graham O'Brien

Worldbuilding

 * Ada Lovelace died in 1852 after "many years of ill health" and Mary Shelley in 1851.
 * Nikola Tesla met the Doctor in 1903 and died forty years later, in 1943.

Story notes
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Continuity

 * Graham O'Brien recalls the circumstances of his meeting with Ada Lovelace, Noor Inayat Khan, (TV: Spyfall) Nikola Tesla (TV: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror) and Mary Shelley. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati)
 * Ada Lovelace died of an illness in 1852 (PROSE: The Book of the War) and her part in the development of computers went unacknowledged for around a century after her passing. (AUDIO: The Enchantress of Numbers)