POSTCARDS FROM THE PAST COMPETITION WINNERS

In May this year, as the world was locking down, BBC History Revealed, with HistoryExtra.com, launched a competition for children aged 6-13 designed to challenge their historical knowledge and imagination. Their task: to write and draw a postcard from the perspective of a historical person living in a past lockdown.

The response has been amazing, with more than 600 children across the UK putting pen to paper and channelling their inner historians. The panel of judges was bowled over by the sheer variety of characters chosen – from Elizabeth I, Blackbeard the Pirate and Martin Luther King, to Ötzi the Iceman, Boudicca and Samuel Pepys –