> Also if anything I think scientists/thinkers have had more than their fair share of slots in banknotes. Perhaps the turn of former PMs...
From an American perspective I assumed you were being facetious until I actually looked up who's on UK banknotes. I'll be damned--you guys actually seem like a civilized country. Since "Series D", you've only had two politicians on banknotes--and one of them was better known as a military commander.
For contrast, recent US banknotes picture an assortment of former Presidents, as well as Alexander Hamilton (first US Treasury Secretary), Benjamin Franklin, and Civil War era US Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase. We don't have a single non-politician, but we do have three slaveholders and the guy responsible for ethnic cleansing of American Indians. It would be nice to give some other notable historic Americans a chance.
From an American perspective I assumed you were being facetious until I actually looked up who's on UK banknotes. I'll be damned--you guys actually seem like a civilized country. Since "Series D", you've only had two politicians on banknotes--and one of them was better known as a military commander.
For contrast, recent US banknotes picture an assortment of former Presidents, as well as Alexander Hamilton (first US Treasury Secretary), Benjamin Franklin, and Civil War era US Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase. We don't have a single non-politician, but we do have three slaveholders and the guy responsible for ethnic cleansing of American Indians. It would be nice to give some other notable historic Americans a chance.