Kids dress up day at school - who made Britain great?!

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Help!!
This is the latest great idea by my daughter's school and I have absolutely no idea!!
Friends have also asked me who have boys there so any ideas most welcome!!!

Just about to say the same Cora !!!

Robin Hood!

Isaac Newton

Shakespeare

Brunel

Edward Jenner

Emmeline Pankhurst

Queen Victoria

A land girl

A soldier

Marie Lloyd

Marie Lloyd

Women worked in the mines until some ridiculous grandee mp banned them. They continued to work with coal on the surface. Arguably the biggest driver of wealth in this country

Brunel?

George Stephenson - inventor of the first steam locomotive.

I wouldn't be able to help myself. My child would be going as Ted Heath, draped in an EU flag, regardless of gender.

What a jingoistic topic to choose.

I know you have a dd but Thomas Telford would be easy. Him of the amazing bridges and aqueducts.

A Roman?

Theresa May?

Maggie Thatcher

Jesus that list is depressing! Hardly any women, most of the women are royals and the only stem woman a eugenecist!!

Ada Lovelace
Rosalind Franklin
Dorothy Hodgkin
Harriette chick
Beatrice Webb
Maria Gordon
Elizabeth Fry
Mary Wollstonecraft
The bronte sisters
Mary seacole
Nancy Astor
Helen bamber
Barbara castle
Caryl Churchill
Dany cotton - perfect for s costume day as you just need a firefighting outfit!
Margaret damer-Dawson - also easy costume - police one
Jane Goodall
Agnes hunt...

I could go on and on!

The total ledge who couldn't burn the EU flag.

Scientists - white lab coat, toy microscope, clipboard

Activists - period costume, sash with cause on

We have also produced amazing war reporters, lawyers, explorers & adventurers, sports women, soldiers, engineers, inventors...

Ada Lovelace, Mary Anning, Aphra Behn, various queens, JK Rowling ?

Marie Lloyd

I love this.

If someone has a son, they should go as PG Wodehouse. Or William Blake. Or Dr Johnson. Or William Shakespeare.

For a girl, there's Margo Fonteyn. Or one of the Brontes. Or Betty Boothroyd. Or Mary Shelley. Or someone like Octavia Hill. Or Beatrix Potter.

Please tell me that was sarcasm AllTheBest

As a German, the only thing I think made Britain great were the suffragettes.

Miners and farmers may have made Britain wealthy, but it is not something I am particularly impressed with. We have agriculture and coal mines in Germany, too.

Jane Austen and Shakespeare ... perhaps, though I am more impressed with them as individuals then as British citizens.

And I would steer very far away from soldiers unless you can make it explicit that the soldier is one of WWII who fought the nazis.

(Yes, soldiers made Britain larger but I doubt this was meant by "great")

Punk rock

Ripped jeans with safety pins and chains (Wickes will be your friend), plain shirt (or patterned one turned inside out) with sleeves ripped off and anarchy sign painted on in fabric paint (hobby craft). Wig, or strong hair gel and spray in dye for red 'liberty' spikes if you're going for the real deal. My six year old did this for brilliant Britain day and he ROCKED!

Flora McDonald or Grace Darling would be fun. I don't think they do them in school anymore but they're cracking stories.

I think you need to go through your wardrobe and work from there because most of these would be absolute sods to costume. Suffragette probably the easiest, or maybe land girl or Florence Nightingale (or Mary Seacole depending on ethnicity).

And can I add JK Rowling for Great Briton? (tricky to costume but you could bring the books as props).

Tripadvisor's clientele clearly agrees with me m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58d2cecae4b02d33b74806e6

marie stopes

Yes good luck with a) costuming b) explaining c) justifying that one if it's for a primary audience Amber.

Vestal that's sad you think so, that would be a bit like Brits thinking the only influential Germans were Karl Marx, nazis and Angela merkel!

When you have produced such amazing people as:
Gertrud arndt
The hans holbeins
Martin Luther
Johanes Gutenberg
Marlene Dietrich
Bach, Beethoven and Brahms...