History Collection

Historical_Ads_and_Posters Collection
584 items

Flags Collection
50 items

Mythology Collection
29 items

Historical Maps Collection
143 items

People Collection
33 items

Art Collection
751 items

Britain Collection
756 items

Engraving Collection
621 items

French Collection
692 items

Literature Collection
377 items

London Collection
730 items

Militaria Collection
510 items

Painter Collection
816 items

Paris Collection
711 items

Religion Collection
476 items

Science Collection
455 items

War Collection
597 items

Glorification of the Eucharist by Ventura Salimbeni 1600

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) in 1746. German composer and organist. Portrait by Elias Gottlieb Haussman. Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Leipzig

In 1581, Ivan beat his son, Ivan in a heated argument causing his sons death. Depicted in the painting by Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible killing his son by Ilya Repin

Scotland for Ever. The charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo, 18 June 1815. After the painting by Lady Butler

Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980) Shah of Iran 1941-1979, with his third wife Farah Diba and their son Reza in ceremonial dress in front of throne

Icon of St. Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury, with the Holy Grail and the staff that flowered, by the hand of a Monk of the Brotherhood of St. Seraphim of Sarov

The Tabula Rogeriana, drawn by al-Idrisi for Roger II of Sicily in 1154, an important ancient world map

Labours of the months Tres Riches Heures 1413-1416, the Duc de Berry. Illumination on parchment, Chantilly, Musee Conde

(Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) American humanitarian. Chairman UN Human Rights Commission 1947-1951 and US representative at General Assembly 1946. Wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Photograph

Map of the extent of the Hanseatic League in about 1400

Mossadeq 1951 Man of Year, from Time 1952. Mohammad Mosaddegh (19 May 1882 - 5 March 1967) Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 when he was overthrown in a coup d etat backed by the United States

Mao Tse - Tung (Mao Zedong), Chinese propaganda poster
Chinese propaganda poster showing Mao Tse - Tung (Mao Zedong), Chinese Communist leader, with peasants during the Cultural Revolution of 1966

The Peace frieze from the Standard of Ur. Sumerian artefact excavated from the Royal Cemetery in Ur (located in modern-day Iraq)

Copy made in Cairo in 1456 of the world map prepared by the Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100-1165) for Roger II (1095-1154) King of Sicily from 1130. In this map, North is at the bottom

Reconstruction of Java Man (Pithecanthropus erectus) based on skull cap, thigh bone and 2 back teeth discovered in Pliocene fossil beds in Trinil, Central Java, by Dr Eugene Dubois in 1894

Elias Goldensky (1867-1943) American portrait photographer. Portrait of three women, c. 1915

Minoans Traders: wall painting from Acrotiri in Thera (Santorini) showing Minoan ships. Bronze Age (3200-1050 BC). The exchange of products with distant countries was served by the well-organized

Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) Hungarian pianist and composer. After a photograph

Smiling Native North American Indian woman. Photograph by Edward Curtis (1868-1952)

Franz Joseph I (1830-1916), Emperor of Austria, seated centre, at the marriage of Archduke Charles (later Charles I) to Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma at Schwarzau Castle, 21 November 1911

Freikorps unit takes to the streets in Berlin during unrest in the years of the Weimar Republic. Circa 1923

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Paolo e Francesca da Rimini, 1855

Mesmers tub at his consulting room in parish which opened soon after his treatise Memoire sur la decouverte de magnetism animal in 1779

The Wolf-Charmer. Illustration by John La Farge published New York 1881. Belief in wolf charmers widespread in France in first half of 19th century and was last vestige of were-wolf legend

Elizabeth I in coronation robes. Elizabeth I (1533-1603) queen of England from 1558. Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, she was the last Tudor

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Swiss mathematician. Einstein sailing

Publicity still for the Hollywood film Some Like It Hot (1959): Director and Producer, Billy Wilder. Marily Monroe with her co-stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag

The Fasces, an axe tied to a bundle of sticks, the symbol of Ancient Roman magistrates, which was adopted as their emblem by the Italian Fascists in the 20th century

Bette Davis (1908-1989) as an infatuated flapper in The Rich Are Always With Us, 1932

Native American in traditional clothing, 1923

Native woman, nude, half-length portrait, facing slightly left

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