Research and Bibliography;

Research;
Below are the body's of text that I have found through research, that will be used to extract facts into the e-book. The amount of text that'll be needed will be significantly less than is currently available for each person, also not all of the text is relevant or may need re-frasing to be child friendly. 

Captain James Cook  (1728 - 1779)

Cook was an 18th century explorer and navigator whose achievements in mapping the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia radically changed western perceptions of world geography. As one of the very few men in the 18th century navy to rise through the ranks, Cook was particularly sympathetic to the needs of ordinary sailors.

James Cook was born on 27 October 1728 in a small village near Middlesbrough in Yorkshire. His father was a farm worker. At the age of 17, Cook moved to the coast, settling in Whitby and finding work with a coal merchant. In 1755, Cook enlisted in the Royal Navy, serving in North America where he learnt to survey and chart coastal waters.

In 1769, the planet Venus was due to pass in front of the Sun, a rare event visible only in the southern hemisphere. The British government decided to send an expedition to observe the phenomenon. A more secret motive was to search for the fabled southern continent. Cook was chosen as commander of the Whitby-built HMS Endeavour. Those on board included astronomer Charles Green and botanist Joseph Banks.

Endeavour arrived in Tahiti in April 1769 where Green was able to observe the transit of Venus. Endeavour continued on to New Zealand, and then sailed along the length of Australia's eastern coast, which had never before been seen by Europeans. Cook claimed it for Britain and named it New South Wales. Cook and his crew then returned home, arriving in July 1771.

In 1772, not satisfied by his previous exploits, Cook set out on a second voyage to look for the southern continent. His two ships sailed close to the Antarctic coast but were forced to turn back by the cold. They then visited New Zealand and Tahiti, returning to England in 1775.

Cook's third voyage was to find the North-West Passage that was believed to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Unable to find the fabled route, Cook took his two ships south and explored the island of Hawaii. Relations with the islanders were soured after the theft of a ship's boat. On 14 February Cook tried to take the local leader hostage. There was a scuffle and Cook was stabbed and killed.

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 - 1928)

Pankhurst was a leading British women's rights activist, who led the movement to win the right for women to vote.

Emmeline Goulden was born on 14 July 1858 in Manchester into a family with a tradition of radical politics. In 1879, she married Richard Pankhurst, a lawyer and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. He was the author of the Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 and 1882, which allowed women to keep earnings or property acquired before and after marriage. His death in 1898 was a great shock to Emmeline.

In 1889, Emmeline founded the Women's Franchise League, which fought to allow married women to vote in local elections. In October 1903, she helped found the more militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) - an organisation that gained much notoriety for its activities and whose members were the first to be christened 'suffragettes'. Emmeline's daughters Christabel and Sylvia were both active in the cause. British politicians, press and public were astonished by the demonstrations, window smashing, arson and hunger strikes of the suffragettes. In 1913, WSPU member Emily Davison was killed when she threw herself under the king's horse at the Derby as a protest at the government's continued failure to grant women the right to vote.

Like many suffragettes, Emmeline was arrested on numerous occasions over the next few years and went on hunger strike herself, resulting in violent force-feeding. In 1913, in response to the wave of hunger strikes, the government passed what became known as the 'Cat and Mouse' Act. Hunger striking prisoners were released until they grew strong again, and then re-arrested.

This period of militancy was ended abruptly on the outbreak of war in 1914, when Emmeline turned her energies to supporting the war effort. In 1918, the Representation of the People Act gave voting rights to women over 30. Emmeline died on 14 June 1928, shortly after women were granted equal voting rights with men (at 21).

Aneurin Bevan   (1897 - 1960) 

Aneurin Bevan was one of the most important ministers of the post-war Labour government and the chief architect of the National Health Service.

Aneurin Bevan was born on 15 November 1897 in Tredegar in Wales. His father was a miner and the poor working class family in which Bevan grew up gave him first-hand experience of the problems of poverty and disease.

Bevan left school at 13 and began working in a local colliery. He became a trades union activist and won a scholarship to study in London. It was during this period that he became convinced by the ideas of socialism. During the 1926 General Strike, Bevan emerged as one of the leaders of the South Wales miners. In 1929, Bevan was elected as the Labour member of parliament for Ebbw Vale. In 1934 he married another Labour MP, Jennie Lee.

During World War Two, Bevan was one of the leaders of the left in the House of Commons. After the landslide Labour victory in the 1945 general election, Bevan was appointed minister of health, responsible for establishing the National Health Service. On 5 July 1948, the government took over responsibility for all medical services and there was free diagnosis and treatment for all.

In 1951, Bevan was moved to become minister of labour. Shortly afterwards he resigned from the government in protest at the introduction of prescription charges for dental care and spectacles. Bevan led the left wing of the Labour Party, known as the 'Bevanites', for the next five years. In 1955, he stood as one of the candidates for party leader but was defeated by Hugh Gaitskell. He agreed to serve as shadow foreign secretary under Gaitskell.

In 1959, Bevan was elected deputy leader of the Labour Party, although he was already suffering from terminal cancer. He died on 6 July 1960.

Bibliography for all areas of the project;

BBC (2014) Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 - 1928) [Online] Available from:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/pankhurst_emmeline.shtml [Accessed 26th October 2016]

BBC (2014) Captain James Cook (1728 - 1779) [Online] Available from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/cook_captain_james.shtml [Accessed 26th October 2016]

BBC (2014) Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960) [Online] Available from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bevan_aneurin.shtml [Accessed 26th October 2016]

Northern Ireland Curriculum (2007) Active Learning and Teaching Methods for Key Stages 1&2. [Online] Available from: http://www.nicurriculum.org.uk/docs/key_stages_1_and_2/altm-ks12.pdf [Accessed 8^th December 2016]

The National Archives (2016) Education Sessions and Resources.  [Online] Available from: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/sessions-and-resources/?key-stage=ks1 [Accessed 8^th December 2016]

BBC Bitesize (2016) KS1 History. [Online] Available from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zkqmhyc [Accessed 8th December 2016]

BBC (2014) Schools KS1 History. [Online] Available from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/keystage_1/topics/history.shtml [Accessed 8^th December 2016]

BBC (2014) Primary History- Famous People, Florence Nightingale. [Online] Available from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/florence_nightingale/ [Accessed 8^th December 2016]