Period

A painting of a shipwreck

Hard lives on the high seas

An engraving showing chimneys emitting smoke during the Industrial Revolution

Industrial revolution

Can history help halt the runaway train?

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King: A drum major for justice

The 14th-century Gough Map

The Gough Map: a map of medieval Britain

Street view of the medieval city of Dinan that belongs to the province of Brittany in the northwestern part of France

History holidays: French fancy

An aerial view of Wilton House

Going Dutch: the Glorious Revolution of 1688

West Kent Territorial Army

Second World War

One hundred years of voluntary service

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A view of Machu Picchu, Peru

General ancient history

The Library Imperial marvels

ilver penny of King Alfred

The real Alfred the Great

Henry VIII, Princess Mary and William Somers

Playing the fool: Tudor jesters

English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-94), author of 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The decline and fall of the British Empire

The statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Getty Images)

Communist Moscow

Map of Bayham Park from ‘Repton’s Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture’ by JC Loudon. (Photo by The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images)

John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843)

The repulse of a sortie during the Siege of Delhi, a conflict of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The rebels advance on a British battery, who repel them with swords, bayonets and rifles. A lithograph by E. Walker, after a drawing by Captain G. F. Atkinson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The myth of native-bashing