Grace, Stanley Matthews, Sir Alf Ramsey, Pat Smythe, Roger Bannister), business (Cecil Rhodes), and law (Baron Birkett of Ulverston). Emmeline Pankhurst), the armed forces (General Gordon, Lord Baden-Powell, Field-Marshall Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Lawrence of Arabia, Earl Mountbatten), heroines (Florence Nightingale, Edith Cavell), performers (Harry Lauder, Charlie Chaplin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Dame Alicia Markova, Kathleen Ferrier), sports personalities (W. Wells), composers and musicians (Gilbert and Sullivan, Elgar, Vaughan-Williams, Sir Thomas Beecham, Benjamin Britten), explorers (David Livingstone, Captain Robert Falcon Scott), pioneers (Amy Johnson, Sir Francis Chichester), activists (Mrs. In total there were 52 famous individuals–45 men and only seven women–ranging from politicians (Gladstone, Disraeli, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Churchill), philanthropists (Lord Shaftesbury, William Booth, Barnardo), scientists (Darwin, Lord Lister, Sir Alexander Fleming), inventors (Lord Nuffield, John Logie Baird, Sir Frank Whittle), artists (Sir Edwin Landseer, Augustus John), writers (Tennyson, Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Yet the men and women in this album are sure of their place in our history. Nonetheless, the twentieth century has produced many outstanding people who have made unique contributions to the development of our country and the life of our people.
There has also been a growth in the size and scale of organisations concerned with government, business and society. Eminent Victorians were people of character and will as well as of ability.ĭuring the twentieth century there have been far sharper breaks in people’s experience two world wars. During this period Britain produced not only new men of wealth and power but writers of exceptional creative ability. So long as Queen Victoria reigned – until 1901 – there was a strong sense of continuity. The last hundred years have seen greater changes in Britain than any previous century – changes in work and in recreation, in education and in politics, in thinking and in feeling. As Professor Briggs explained in his introduction, the choice of “Famous People” had not been an easy:
These eminent Britons were chosen by historian Professor Asa Briggs, who was then Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex–now Baron Briggs, who is best known for his books on Victorians and his five volume History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In 1969, the company issued a set of 50 cards depicting Famous People 1896-1969–which celebrated British men and women who (it was claimed) had achieved their place in history.
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The cards were beautifully illustrated with factual descriptions or potted biographies printed on their backs.īrooke Bond’s tea cards were a gimmick that offered young children an traditional sense of British history and identity–one greatly shaped by Empire–while instilling a favourable liking for their aromatic beverage–if only to obtain the full set of cards. At first, these cards primarily dealt with subjects relating to national identity–with titles that ranged from British Birds, British Butterflies, British Costumes, British Wildlife, Trees in Britain, and Famous People, before widening out to more general subjects such as African Animals, Dinosaurs, Asian Wildlife, Canadian and American Songbirds, Animals of North America, The Race for Space, The Saga of Ships, and Adventurers and Explorers among many others.
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From the 1950s Brooke Bond gave away free picture postcards with boxes of PG Tips tea bags and packets of loose tea.
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