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Civil Engineer who built the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the Avon in 1864.
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WW1 nurse who was shot in 1915 for helping hundreds of prisoners escape the Germans.
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First woman to fly solo from London to Australia in 1930 and thus winning £10,000.
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Prolific Victorian writer, whose first novel, The Pickwick Papers, appeared in serial form in 1836.
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Leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt, which began in Essex, caused by unduly high tax levies.
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MP and politician who campaigned tirelessly for the abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807.
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Actor and writer of 38 plays, the first being Henry VI, Part One in 1589, and 154 sonnets.
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Lieutenant who led the last major cavalry charge in British History at Omdurman in 1898.
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Robinson Crusoe creator who was inspired by shipwreck survivor Alexander Selkirk.
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Votes for women campaigner who founded and led the Suffragette Movement until 1918.
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RAF officer and inventor of the Turbo Jet Engine in 1930.
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Father of Railways, who pioneered the first steam-driven passenger railway in 1825.
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Microbiologist who in 1928 noticed that a certain mould destroyed certain bacteria.
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Creator of Noddy and Big Ears, Brer Rabbit, the Famous Five and the Secret Seven.
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Queen of England 1533-36 and mother of Queen Elizabeth I. She was beheaded.
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Napoleon's nemesis in many battles in Spain, France and finally 'Belgium'- Waterloo,1815.
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Writer of the Book of Household Management in 1861, which contained many cooking recipes.
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Writer of more than 70 detective novels, 14 short story collections and 19 plays.
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Pioneering nurse during the Crimean War,1853-56, and founder of two Schools of Nursing.
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Composer of the music for 'Land of Hope and Glory' in 1904, and much more.
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Author of Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park etc in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.
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Nemesis of Charles I and commander of the Parliamentary army in the English Civil Wars.
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Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell were better known as the ....... Sisters.
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Architect of the 5th St Paul's Cathedral, completed in 1710, and 52 other churches in London.
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A well-known Romantic poet's wife and author of the Gothic novel Frankenstein in 1818.
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Father of Immunology, who produced a Smallpox vaccine in 1796 and vaccinated children.
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Quaker campaigner for better conditions in filthy, disease-ridden Victorian prisons.
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Victorian writer of Silas Marner, Middlemarch, etc whose real name was Mary Ann Evans.
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Royal Navy Vice-Admiral who was killed during the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October,1805.
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Pioneering Travel Agent who took 350 people on a tour of Scotland in 1846.
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