Click on the coloured numbers to find out about some of the most outstanding people of that time. You can use the links below if you prefer.
You can also click on these links... 1 King Caratacus (d. AD 54) - Queen Boudicca (d. AD 62)2 The Venerable Saint Bede (b. 673) - King Alfred (b. 849)3 Saxon Peasant (c. 1000) - Eleanor of Aquitaine (b. 1122)4 Robert the Bruce (b. 1274) - Julian of Norwich (b. 1342)5 Geoffrey Chaucer (b. 1340-45) - King Edward V (b. 1470)6 Queen Elizabeth I (b. 1533) - William Shakespeare (b. 1564)7 Carey Verney (b. 1626) - Samuel Pepys (b. 1633)8 Captain James Cook (b. 1728 )- Olaudah Equiano (b. 1745)9 Mary Seacole (b. 1805) - Isambard Kingdom Brunel (b. 1806)10 Emily Wilding Davison (b. 1872) - Sir Benjamin Britten (b. 1913)11 Sir Paul McCartney (b. 1942) - Baroness Thatcher (b. 1925)