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Race between Peter Cooper's locomotive Tom Thumb and a horse-drawn railway carriage, 1829
 
Riot by railway workers at Martinsbury on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, August, 1877
 
Boston Tea Party, 26 December 1773
 
Boston Tea Party, 26 December 1773
 
Slave quarters on a plantation in Georgia, USA
 
The New Photographic Looking Glass cartoon from Punch, everyday proof of man's origins, 1861
 
Pigeons used by Charles Darwin at Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, England, 1887
 
Man is but a Worm cartoon from Punch showing evolution from worm to man, 1881
 
Title page of Andreas Vesalius De Humani Corporis Fabrica showing Vesalius dissecting body, 1543. Artist: Andreas Vesalius
 
John Oldcastle, Lollard leader, hung and burnt hanging for denying transubstantiation, 1417(1848)
 
Burning of John Badby for heresy, 1410 (1848)
 
Spanish troops torching buildings and massacring during Spanish rule in Netherlands, 1567-73
 
Spanish Execution of Huguenots, c1565
 
Decapitation of Count Egmont and Hoorn at Brussels during Spanish tyranny in Netherlands, 1568
 
Protestants in the Netherlands executed for heresy during Duke of Alva's repressive rule (1567-73)
 
Frontispiece of Denis Diderot Encyclopedie, Paris, 1751-80
 
Giuseppe Garibaldi trying to persuade Pope Pius IX, 1860. Artist: John Tenniel
 
Discussion over the future ruler of unified Italy, 1860
 
Victor Emmanuel II knocking on the door of Naples, 1861. Artist: John Tenniel
 
Giuseppe Garibaldi helping Victor Emmanuel II put on the boot of Italy, 1860
 
Giuseppe Garibaldi turning the British idea of the Roman Catholic church out of Naples, 1860
 
Giuseppe Garibaldi, conquering Sicily and Naples for the new kingdom of Italy, 1860. Artist: John Tenniel
 
Victor Emmanuel II (1st King of Italy) shaking Leopold II (Duke of Tuscany) out of Italy, 1861
 
Galileo's diagram of the Copernican system of the universe, (1632). Artist: Galileo Galilei
 
Cradling for gold in the Californian gold fields, 1849
 
Cradling for gold in the Californian gold fields, 1849
 
Miners panning for gold during the Californian Gold Rush, 1849
 
The Russian Wolf and The Hebrew Lamb cartoon from Punch, 1890
 
Eruption of Vesuvius, 1906
 
Opening of wireless telegraph link between Paris and Casablanca, 1907
 
TheTrial of a Witch, America, (17th century), 1882
 
Engagement between Confederates and Unionists, American Civil War, (1852) c1890
 
Engagement between Confederates and Unionists, American Civil War, (1852) 1885
 
Allied representatives at the Lausanne Conference, 1922 Creator: Unknown
 
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) Italian fascist dictator, 1922
 
Adolf Hitler addressing a rally, c1930s
 
Adolph Hitler addressing a rally, c1930s
 
Cholera amongst victims of famine in China
 
Cholera patient
 
Cholera quarantine in Italy
 
George Whitefield preaching in the open air, (c1750) c1870
 
Cholera epidemic in Naples
 
Spanish Jew before Grand Inquisitor, 1891. Artist: Paul Hardy
 
Lord Elgin signing the Treaty of Tainjin to end the Second Opium War, 1858
 
Martin Luther with reformers, c1530
 
Pilgrim Fathers on their way to church, 1620
 
Chinese prospector in the Californian gold fields, 1853
 
Martin Luther, c1830
 
Excavating the Panama Canal, 1888
 
Scene from the de Lesseps attempt to dig the Panama Canal, 1888
 
Paying West Indian labourers, 1888
 
Digging the Panama Canal, 1888
 
Protestant theologians working on Luther's translation of the Bible, c1530s
 
Title page of Leo X's Papal Bull, 1520
 
Martin Luther German Protestant reformer, 1546
 
Martin Luther burning the Papal Bull, 1520
 
Pope Leo X supervising the burning of Martin Luthor's books, 1521
 
Henry II, King of England, c1860
 
The International Inventions Exhibition, Kensington, London, August 1885
 
Charles II (1630-1685), King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1660