The Top Ten Greatest Britons

Not to be outdone by tutor2U’s excellent Politics blog here is a challenge you could set for your History students. The task is to create a list of the Top Ten Greatest Britons. We’ll post an initial list and then will change it to reflect any comments that we receive. Here’s our Top Ten Greatest Britons:

1 Winston Churchill
2 William Shakespeare
3 Queen Victoria
4 Isambard Kingdom Brunel
5 Sir Douglas Haig
6 Isaac Newton
7 Charles Darwin
8 Mrs Thatcher
9 Edward Elgar
10 Bobby Moore

Disagree with any? Some might be seen as controversial. Make a comment!