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Credits


Production Team 
DesignerFiona Stewart, BBC Scotland Interactive
HMTL CoderSean Carroll, BBC Scotland Interactive
Flash Games Developer/CoderFlora Napier, BBC Scotland Interactive
Broadcast AssistantsIrene Bain, BBC Scotland Education
 Tanya Carmichael, BBC Scotland Education
Assistant ProducerCarolyn Syme, BBC Scotland Education
ProducerJohanna Hall, BBC Scotland Education
Senior ProducerLucy Conan, BBC Scotland Education
IllustratorFiona Stewart, BBC Scotland Interactive
Additional illustrators Craig Conlan (Elizabeth Fry & Edward Jenner areas)
 Ryan Kidd (Isambard Kingdom Brunel areas)
 Mike Octigan (Samuel Pepys & Mary Seacole areas)
  
Consultants 
Educational and Historical ConsultantsJoan Bennett, Brenda Casey and Chris Durbin
Historian and ResearcherRichard Dargie
ProofreaderJess King
  
Artists/Contributors 
Murray Alford (voice of boy in Timeline family)
Alistair Alford(voice of man in Timeline family, Time Machine and homepage)
  
James Bryce(voice of Samuel Pepys areas)
  
Juliet Cadzow(voice of Elizabeth Fry areas)
  
Jimmy Chisholm(voice of Isambard Kingdom Brunel areas)
Paul Featherstone(singer of Florence Nightingale song)
David Goodall(composer of Florence Nightingale song)
Noreen Leighton(voice of woman in Timeline family and Journeys area)
Vicki Liddelle(voice of Florence Nightingale and Pocahontas areas)
  
Crawford Logan(voice of Henry VIII areas)
  
Mark McDonnell(voice of Edward Jenner areas)
Laura McGinlay(voice of girl in Timeline family)
Fergus Nimmo(voice of Help Icon)
Gregor Powrie(voice of Christopher Columbus and George Stephenson areas)
Dawn Reid(voice of Mary Seacole areas)


Images/Copyright

The following images are copyright of third parties and may not be reproduced without express permission from the copyright holder. All images used are by kind permission of the copyright holders.Any copying or reproduction of these images is expressly forbidden.

Additional original photography is © BBC Education Scotland, 2004. Images on the site not listed below are © BBC. Please note images are listed by character in the order in which they appear in each learning area.

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.


Christopher Columbus

Hulton Archive / Getty images
ref HF4759 ? Portrait of Christopher Columbus
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

thenina.com website
Photograph of replica of Nina
© The Columbus Foundation, British Virgin Islands
http://www.thenina.com/
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.

Corpus Christi Museum website
Photograph of ships and sails
© Corpus Christi Museum

Charles Best
Photographs of nautical instruments, half hour glass, traverse board and compass
© Charles Best 020 7837 3271

Mary Evans Picture Library
ref 10007470 - 'Columbus/Puiggari? ? Columbus with globe
© Mary Evans Picture Library


Edward Jenner

Portrait of Edward Jenner
Close up of hand of Sarah Nelmes
Portrait of Blossom the Cow
Edward Jenner's medical paper
© The Edward Jenner Museum, Berkeley, Gloucestershire
http://www.jennermuseum.com/
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.

Photographed at the Edward Jenner Museum, Berkeley, Gloucestershire
Blossom's horns
Edward Jenner's knives
Temple of Vaccinia
Edward Jenner?s study
Edward Jenner?s flute

Mary Evans Picture Library
ref 10048954 ? Jenner/Petit Journal?
© Mary Evans Picture Library

Cuckoo & dunnock by John Buckingham ? image ref JBU000102A
© J & S Buckingham / NHPA

Plesiosaur fossil image
Courtesy of Two Guys Fossils and Bay State Replicas

http://www.twoguysfossils.com/
http://www.baystatereplicas.com/
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.

WHO logo
With permission from WHO


Elizabeth Fry

Hulton Archive / Getty images
ref HN7569 - Elizabeth Fry full length
ref HQ9110 - Elizabeth Fry head and shoulders 
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Mary Evans Picture Library
ref 10033007 ? ?Newgate Prison/1800?
© Mary Evans Picture Library

Engraving by T Oldham Barlow from a painting by Jerry Barrett, ca. 1860
Mrs. Fry reading to the prisoners in Newgate, 1816?
Reproduced by kind permission from The Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain.

Prison Hulk PW6122
© National Maritime Museum, London

Bust of Elizabeth Fry
By permission of Newham Library Service


Florence Nightingale

Young Florence Nightingale after the Crimea War
Florence Nightingale's hair bracelet
Scutari hospital sash
Shell of Jimmy the tortoise
Florence Nightingale?s medicine chest
Florence Nightingale's lamp
Sheet music for the 'Queen's Letter Song' cover page
Reproduction of letter with Florence Nightingale's signature
Nightingale ward with nurses
Photograph of Helena Riddick in Nightingale uniform
Florence Nightingale?s letter seal
© Florence Nightingale Museum Trust

Mary Evans Picture Library:
ref 10090940 - 'Nightingale in last year' ? Florence as a young woman
ref 10013837 - 'Florence Nightingale' ? full length photograph of Florence Nightingale
© Mary Evans Picture Library


George Stephenson

Hulton Archive / Getty images
ref HJ3380 ? Portrait of seated George Stephenson
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Science and Society Picture Library
NRM/PER/B741990B - Birthplace of George Stephenson
© National Railway Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

National Trust
Photograph of the interior of George Stephenson?s birthplace
© National Trust Photo Library/Geoffrey Frosh

Mary Evans Picture Library
ref 10091048 - 'R Stephenson (Richmond)' ? Portrait of Robert Stephenson
© Mary Evans Picture Library

Science and Society Picture Library
SCM/MIN/C100013A - Mining Lamps
© Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

SCM/MIN/ C000005I - Hetton Colliery
© Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

NRP/RLO/C000172D - The Novelty
© National Railway Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

NRM/RLO/C100067B - Sans Pareil
© National Railway Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

Hulton Archive / Getty Images
Ref HK8286 ? Remains of The Rocket
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Science and Society Picture Library
SCM/PER/B530055B - Relics of George Stephenson (watch)
© Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library


Henry VIII

Henry VIII portrait by Hans the Younger Holbein ? full length colour portrait of Henry VIII
Reproduced with permission from the Bridgeman Art Library
Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, UK
http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.

Hulton Archive /Getty Images
ref HH0595 - Young Henry
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Royal Armouries
Photograph of Henry VIII and horse armour
DTR.17: Silver and engraved armour of Henry VIII, English, Greenwich, c.1514-15 (II.5)
Horse Armour by Martin van Royne, presented to Henry VIII by Maximilian I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Includes Shaffron (VI.1), Crinet (VI.2), Peytral (VI.3), Crupper (VI.4), Flanchards (VI.5) and Saddle Steels (VI.6).
© The Board of Trustees of the Armouries

Hulton Archive /Getty Images
ref H27804 B1987 5/4 -Woodcut of King Henry's coronation
ref HP0380 - Henry & Wives
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Family of Henry VIII by an Unknown Artist (RCIN 405796)
The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Anne Boleyn?s Gateway, Hampton Court
Crown copyright: Historic Royal Palaces

Tennis ball stuffed with dog hair
© Museum of London

Mary Evans Picture Library
ref 10022463 ? ?King Henry Viii/Anon?
© Mary Evans Picture Library

Hulton Archive /Getty Images
ref JL0414 ? Colour portrait of Henry VIII
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images


IsambardKingdom Brunel

Hulton Archive / Getty Images
ref JJ4960 - Brunel standing by chains of Great Eastern (full length)
ref HT7924 - Thames Tunnel
ref HL1567 - Brunel seated by chains of Great Eastern
ref JJ4933 - Great Eastern
ref HT1099 - Brunel with walking stick
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Suspended Traveller [photograph of a page of one of Brunel?s notebooks]
Reproduced with the permission of the Director of Information Services, University of Bristol
University of Bristol Special Collections: Brunel Collection: Sketchbook 1836, p.12  

Photograph of SS Great Britain
© Bristol City Council, Corporate Design
http://www.bristol-city.gov.uk/
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.

Hulton Archive / Getty Images
ref HL1567 - Brunel seated by chains of Great Eastern
ref JJ4933 - Great Eastern
ref HT1099 - Brunel with walking stick
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images


Mary Seacole

National Library of Jamaica
Portrait of Mary Seacole
Courtesy of the National Library of Jamaica

Hulton Archive / Getty Images
ref HA7658 - ?Punch? cartoon of Mary Seacole ?Our own vivandière?
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Photograph of a Crimean war medal reproduced with permission.
With thanks to First Sergeant Scott Gutzke, Battery B, 4th US Light Artillery
http://www.batteryb.com/
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.

Photograph of front cover of the Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands [narrated by herself] ed. By W. J. S, 1858. Reference (shelfmark) 249 t. 548.
© Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

Photograph of the grave of Mary Seacole reproduced with permission from Internurse, http://www.internurse.com/
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.

National Library of Jamaica
Photograph of bust of Mary Seacole
Courtesy of the National Library of Jamaica


Pocahontas

Hulton Archive / Getty Images
ref JE7290 - Rebecca Rolfe ? colour painting of Pocahontas/Rebecca Rolfe
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Ashmolean Museum
Photograph of Powhatan?s mantle (cape)
This image, AN1685.B205, is copyright of The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford and is reproduced by permission. As such, it is protected by copyright law and it is strictly prohibited to extract, in whole or in part, the image or to derive or prepare any work therefrom.

APVA - Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Photograph of arrow heads
Photograph of copper bits
Photograph of blue beads
Courtesy of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities

Medway
Photograph of death record of Pocahontas
1. Incumbent and parochial church council of St. George's parish church, Gravesend, Kent;
2. Director, Education and Leisure, Medway Council, Kent

With thanks to
Dr. Kent Mountford, Bay Journal - The Chesapeake Bay Newspaper


Samuel Pepys

Hulton Archive / Getty Images
ref HS6751 - Pepys at desk
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

NPG 211 - Samuel Pepys by John Hayls, oil on canvas,1666
© National Portrait Gallery, London
picturelibrary@npg.co.uk
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.

Hulton Archive / Getty Images
ref HE4871 - Pepys diary
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Museum of London
Quill
False teeth
© Museum of London

Hulton Archive / Getty Images
ref JH2146 - Plague crosses on doors
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Samuel Pepys ? colour portrait by Kneller ref BHC2947
© National Maritime Museum, London

Hulton Archive / Getty Images
ref JH2031 - Pepys diary pages
© Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Photograph of bust of Samuel Pepys reproduced with permission from Janet Digby, London Footprints website
http://www.london-footprints.co.uk/
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.



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