Period

Prehistory

Aerial photo of Stone Henge

Stone Age

Bronze Age tools

Bronze Age

Golden torc from the Iron age

Iron Age

Prehistoric cave painting of a bull

General prehistory

Ancient

Valley of the Queens ancient painting

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Greek pottery

Ancient Greece

Stone carving of Roman soldiers

Roman

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Middle Ages

Photo of the Sutton Hoo Anglo Saxon helmet

Early medieval

Photo of the gold Sutton Hoo buckle

Anglo-Saxon

Painting of Vikings in ships

Viking

Photo of the Tower of London

Norman

Painting of Henry II

Plantagenet

Illustrated Medieval scene from the Romance of Lancelot

Medieval

Early Modern

Painting of Venus by Botticelli

Renaissance

Portrait of King Henry VIII, Jane Seymour and Prince Edward. (Photo by Getty Images)

Tudor

Painting of Elizabeth I procession

Elizabethan

Painting of children with a dog

Stuart

Painting of a couple in the countryside

Georgian

Modern

Painting of men working in a foundry

Industrial revolution

Photo of a Victorian family

Victorian

Photo of an Edwardian family on sand dunes

Edwardian

Photo of machine gunners in Belgium

First World War

Photo of RAF bomber pilots

Second World War

Photo of a ballistic missile in Red Square

Cold War

Photo of a London Dandy on Carnaby Street, London

20th Century

Portrait of Isaac Newton

General Modern

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