UK History Hot 100

Every year BBC History polls its readers on their choice of "the historical figures who fascinated you most in 2017." All have to have been dead for 30 years. The table shows the top ten for this and last year which have just been published.

	2017	2016
1	Richard III	Richard III
2	Eleanor of Aquitaine	Elizabeth I
3	Alfred the Great	William Shakespeare
4	Elizabeth I	Anne Boleyn
5	Anne Boleyn	Henry VIII
6	Winston Churchill	Winston Churchill
7	Adolf Hitler	Eleanor of Aquitaine
8	Queen Victoria	Thomas Cromwell
9	William Shakespeare	William Marshal
10	Henry VIII	Adolf Hitler

Perhaps you find some of the results puzzling, I do. Perhaps they wouldn't if we watched British TV. See the complete list, along with expert commentary here.

I was pleased to see people from the STEM community on the long list including  Isaac Newton (40), Charles Darwin(58), Alan Turing (63), Albert Einstein (65), Marie Curie (86), Nikola Tesla (94),  Isambard Kingdom Brunel (100).