Susan Goodman

When Susan Goodman, herself a child in WWII, appealed for wartime stories from her peers the response was overwhelming. Nostalgic, funny, everyday or tragic - the responses produced a rich tapestry of life in WWII through the eyes of children.

Sir Ludwig Guttmann, CBE is best known as the founder of the Paralympic Games. It is thanks largely to him that, from a small archery competition in 1948 involving 16 paralysed British war veterans, evolved a major international sporting event featuring elite athletes with all kinds of disabilities. Guttmann introduced a whole new approach to the way tetraplegic and paraplegic patients were treated from the initial stages of injury until final resettlement.