Jane Austen Note

On Tuesday, the Bank of England unveiled a new 10-pound note featuring Jane Austen.

A new polymer banknote featuring wartime leader Winston Churchill went into circulation on Tuesday in Britain -- one of the first European countries with notes that, literally, can be laundered.

The Bank of England on Thursday unveiled the design of a new 5 pound (6.5 euros, $7.2) banknote bearing the image of wartime leader Winston Churchill at an event in his family's ancestral home of Blenheim Palace.

The British public will for the first time be able to help decide which historic figure - in this case a creative one - appears on the next version of the country's 20 pound note, the Bank of England said on Tuesday.

British 19th century novelist Jane Austen will become the face of the new 10 pound note, the Bank of England said yesterday, defusing criticism that women are under-represented on the country's currency.

On Tuesday, the Bank of England unveiled a new 10-pound note featuring Jane Austen.

A new polymer banknote featuring wartime leader Winston Churchill went into circulation on Tuesday in Britain -- one of the first European countries with notes that, literally, can be laundered.

The Bank of England on Thursday unveiled the design of a new 5 pound (6.5 euros, $7.2) banknote bearing the image of wartime leader Winston Churchill at an event in his family's ancestral home of Blenheim Palace.

The British public will for the first time be able to help decide which historic figure - in this case a creative one - appears on the next version of the country's 20 pound note, the Bank of England said on Tuesday.

British 19th century novelist Jane Austen will become the face of the new 10 pound note, the Bank of England said yesterday, defusing criticism that women are under-represented on the country's currency.