Victorian prison reformer Elizabeth Fry appears on the back of the five-pound note released into circulation in Britain May 21, 2002. Fry is only the second woman to appear on the back of an ...

Mark Carney's first public statement as Governor of the Bank of England wasn't about monetary policy or banking regulation. It was about putting women back on British pound notes. The bank has ...

Adolf Burger, a Jewish typographer who was forced by the Nazis to make fake British pound notes in a major counterfeit operation during the Second World War, has died aged 99.