Great Britons: 250 Lives

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Walk in the footsteps of 250 Great Britons!

Walk in the Footsteps of
250 Great Britons!

"Britain UnLimited" covers 250 of Great Britain's most famous people.
It tells who they were, what they did, where they went and what inspired them, so that you too can follow in their footsteps for research or purely for pleasure.

Select one of the menus below for details of the person you wish to find.

Select by surname of Person

Select by subject of Fame

Select by region of Birth

On this site you'll find museums dedicated to their memory, places they lived in or visited and examples of the works they achieved. You'll find lists of the books they wrote and the pictures they painted. In fact everything you need to know to get a flavour of the people that made Britain great. This site is dedicated to individual people so you will not find Kings and Queens here. There is a wealth of material elsewhere on the Internet to cover this subject, however visit the timeline if you want to relate a person to a particular reign.

Follow the links in the left margin for further information about Great Britain itself and the organisations and companies that can help you.

Or search the entire site for a keyword of your choice in the box below. 

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Who are the top ten most popular British characters with our readers over the years?

Grace Darling kept her top spot in 2007 with just over 21,000 people reading this page.

The lists below are taken from Britain Unlimited's website hits.

 

2007

1. Grace Darling
2. William Somerset-Maugham
3. Edward Burra
4. Alexander Graham Bell
5. Robert Falcon Scott
6. Boadicea
7. Ben Nicholson
8. Henry Moore
9. Lewis Carroll
10. Robert Clive

 

2004

1. Sir Humphrey Davy
2. Edmund Crabbe
3. William Wordsworth
4. Ford Maddox Brown
5. Ben Nicholson
6. Charles Dickens
7. W.H. Auden
8. Sir Richard Arkwright
9. T.S. Eliot
10. Henry Moore

 

2006

1. Grace Darling
2. William Somerset-Maugham
3. Ben Nicholson
4. Henry Moore
5. Robert Falcon Scott
6. Edmund Burra
7. Ford Maddox Brown
8. Boadicea
9. Alexander Graham Bell
10. Lewis Carroll

 

2003

1. Thomas a Becket
2. Sir Humphrey Davy
3. William Shakespeare
4. William Wordsworth
5. Ben Nicholson
6. T.S. Eliot
7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
8. W.H. Auden
9. Boadicea
10. William Somerset- Maugham

 

2005

1. Ben Nicholson
2. Sir Humphrey Davy
3. W.G. Grace
4. Alexander Graham Bell
5. Ford Maddox Brown
6. Edmund Burra
7. Boadicea
8. William Wordsworth
9. Lewis Carroll
10. Robert Clive



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