Banknotes of the pound sterling £10 note on 14 September 2017; these will be followed by the £20 note in 2020, and the £50 at a date after that. In April 2013, the Bank of England announced that its next planned new note issue, intended to be the £5 note in 2016, would feature former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The selection of Churchill to replace Elizabeth Fry raised some debate about the representation of women on British banknotes, with critics raising concerns that Bank of England notes would portray exclusively male figures, other than Elizabeth II who appears on every sterling banknote and coin.
Winston Churchill as historian Winston Churchill as historian The British statesman Winston Churchill was a prolific writer throughout his life, and many of his works were historical. His better-known historical works include: "", "The World Crisis" (a history of World War I), "The Second World War", and "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples". Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for "his mastery of historical and biographical description". Churchill was an exponent of the view that the British and American people had a unique greatness and destiny and that all British history should be seen as progress towards fulfilling that destiny.