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Duke and Duchess of Windsor, c1938
 
Aftermath of famine, Ireland (1840s), 1886
 
Evicted Irish peasant family, 1848
 
Evicted Irish peasant family, 1848
 
Irish peasant girl guarding the family's last few possessions, 1886
 
Map of Canaan divided into the twelve tribes of Israel, c1830
 
Map of Palestine based on ancient authors, c1830
 
Upper tiers of The Colosseum, Rome
 
Death of Joseph Chief of the Nez-Perce, (1877) 1904
 
Alaric I king of Visigoths entering Athens, (395) c1920
 
Oleograph of a Sioux war dance, c1890
 
Artist's impression of Yorimoto, 12th century Japanese warrior, 20th century
 
Christopher Columbus landing in America, 1492, (c1920)
 
Dr Brydon arriving at Jelalabad with news of British deaths, First Anglo-Afghan War, 1842, (c1885)
 
Henri Farman, French aviator, winning prize for first circular kilometre flight, Paris, Jan 1908
 
Henri Farman in the Farman biplane, French aviator and aircraft constructor, c1909
 
Otto Lilienthal, German gliding pioneer & aeronautical inventor, flying one of his gliders
 
Balloon ascent at night from Gare du Nord, Paris, Franco-Prussian War
 
Balloon leaving from Gare du Nord, Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1870
 
Leon Gambetta, French politician about to escape besieged Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1870
 
International Exposition of 1876 held at Philadelphia, Pennslvania, USA, 1876
 
Shakespeare Jubilee, Stratford-upon-Avon, 6-8 September 1769 (1795)
 
Henry IV (1367-1413), first Lancastrian king of England, 1399
 
Alessandro Volta, demonstrating his pile (battery) to Napoleon, (c1800) 1901
 
Louis XIV proclaiming duc d'Anjou King of Spain, War of Succession, (1700) 19th century
 
Tsar Nicholas II reviewing Cossacks, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5
 
Russian soldiers celebrating Christmas, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5
 
John Howard, English prison reformer, c1780 (c1880)
 
John Howard, English prison reformer, c1780 (c1880)
 
Johann Friedrich Oberlin, Lutheran philanthropist, c1800 (c1880)
 
Johann Friedrich Oberlin, Lutheran philanthropist, c1800 (c1880)
 
Johann Friedrich Oberlin, Lutheran philanthropist, c1800 (c1880)
 
George Wilhlem Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher
 
Pilgrim Fathers boarding the Mayflower
 
Martin Luther King Jnr, American black civil rights campaigner, c1968
 
Martin Luther King Jnr, American black civil rights campaigner, c1968
 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French political author, 1787
 
William Wilberforce, English philanthropist
 
William Wilberforce, English philanthropist
 
Salvation Army shelter, Blackfriars, London, early 20th century
 
Boy's class at an American Sunday School, 1890
 
Mixed Sunday School class in a poor district of London, 1873
 
Robert Raikes, English philanthropist and publisher, 1780 (1880)
 
SS Guard on Parade at a Nazi Party rally in Nurmberg, late 1930s
 
Diagram showing man's position in the universe, 1617-19. Artist: Robert Fludd
 
William Tyndale, English translator, 1536 (late 19th century)
 
The Bible being smuggled into England, 1536 (1877)
 
Cardinal Lavigerie, Founder of the Anti-Slavery Society, 1891
 
Robert Raikes, founder of the Sunday School movement, 1780 (1880)
 
Death of Edward the Confessor, 1042 (1866). Artist: Daniel Maclise
 
King Harold swears allegiance to William of Normandy, c1866. Artist: Daniel Maclise
 
Pony Express rider crossing hostile country pursued by native Americans, 1861
 
Giant Ferris wheel, International Exhibition, Chicago, 1893
 
Prester John, legendary Christian priest-king, riding out from a city, 1540
 
Flooding during the excavation of the Thames Tunnel, London,1828 (1836)
 
Flooding during the excavation of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1828
 
Korrigan French navy submarine, 1906
 
Bringing home the Yule Log 1883
 
Demonstrating the Earth's rotation using Foucault's pendulum in a church, 1881
 
Repeat of Foucault's demonstration of the Earth's rotation, May 1851 (c1890)