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38 Cards in this Set

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Prince Charles

The current Prince of Wales
Queen Victoria (husband Prince Albert)
Queen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. From 1837-1901.
Edward Elgars
An English composer
Edward II
King of England from 1307-1327
Stephenson
Scottish engineer of first train called the Rocket
David Cameron
Prime minister of the UK since 2010 and Conservative party leader.
Margaret Thatcher
Prime minister of the UK from 1979-1990. Conservative party leader from 1975-1990.
Carl Marx
German philosopher etc.
Walter Scott
A Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Harold Wilson
Was a British Labour Prime minister from 1964-1970 and 1974-1976
Tam Dalyell
Scottish Labour Party politician
Tony Blair
British Labour Party politician and former PM of the UK from 1997-2007
Donald Dewar
Former First Minister of Scotland from 1999-2000
George W Bush
Former president of US from 2001-2009
Idi Amin Dada
Third président of Uganda from 1971-1979
Gordon Brown
British Labour Party politician and Prime Minister of UK and leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010
Trevor Phillips
UK writer and broadcaster. He is Deputy Chair of the Board of the National Equality Standard.
King James I
Ordered a new translation of the Bible to be used by everyone in the UK and so becoming a symbol of unity
Max Weber
Published a book called protestant ethics and the spirit of blah blah blah
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603
Benjamin Disraeli
PM 1874-1880 twice elected
Nick Clegg
British politician since 2010 Deputy Prime Minister of UK and Lord President of the Council
Ed Miliband
British Labour Party politician current leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition
John Major
A British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the UK and leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997
Boris Johnson
A British Conservative Party politician, who has served as Mayor of London since 2008
Nigel Farage
A British politician and leader of the UK Independence Party since 2010, a position he has also held from September 2006 to November 2009 since 1999 he has been a member of the European Parliament for South East England.
Winston Churchill
A British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955
Clement Attlee
A British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and as leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955
Harold Macmillan
A British Conservative politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of United Kingdom from January 1957 to October 1963
Charles de Gaulle
He was the dominant military and political leader of France for much of the period from 1940 to 1969
Edward Heath
He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from June 1970 to February 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975
George Pompidou
He was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968 holding the longest tenure in his position and later president of the French Republic from 1969 until his death.
Michael Foot
He was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters. He was a member of Parliament from 1945 to 1955 and from 1960 until 1992
Jacques Delors
He is a French economist and politician, the eighth president of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office.
Rupert Murdoch
He is an Australian American business magnate. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father, in 1952.
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office.
Vladimir Putin
He has been the President of Russia since May 2012. Putin previously served as president from 2000 to 2008 and as prime minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.
Alex Salmond
He is a Scottish politician who served as the fourth First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014.