Important Figures

30th May 2022

Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth II is the current Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. She is about to celebrate 70 years on the throne, longer than […]
9th April 2022

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was a revolutionary and much-loved playwright, poet, and actor from Elizabethan England. He was from Stratford-Upon-Avon but spent much of his time in London, […]
9th March 2022

Mary Jane Seacole

Mary Jane Seacole was a nurse who set up a hospital for victims of the Crimean War. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica when it was […]
9th June 2021

Tutankamun

Who was he? Tutankhamun was the pharaoh of Egypt for 9 years, from when he was only 8 or 9 years old until he died ages […]
9th May 2021

Mary Anning

Mary Anning was a fossil hunter in the 19th century who is credited with discovering the Ichthyosaur. She was no professional palaeontologist though, she hunted fossils […]
9th January 2020

Barbara Hepworth

Full Name: Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth Date of Birth: 10/05/1903 Place of Birth: Wakefield, UK Died: 20/05/1975 (Aged 72) Famous for: Artist- Sculptor Barbara Hepworth is a […]