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A statue of Henry VII, King of England (r. 1485-1509), built by Harriet Addyman, 2017. The statue sits outside Pembroke Castle, south Wales, where Henry was born in 1457.

An illustration of Saint Edmund being martyred, manuscript illumination, by Abbo of Fleury, in Passio Edmundi, c. 1130. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City.

The Memorial to the Battle of Edington, also refered to as the Battle of Ethandun, is a sarsen stone monolith near Bratton Castle, Wiltshire, commemorating the defeat of the Viking army by Alfred the Great in 878 CE.

Portrait of Emperor Akbar Praying, ink and opaque watercolor on paper, early 17th century, India. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

A statue of Bertha, queen consort of Kent (c. 560-601), by Stephen Melton, 2006. The statue stands in Lady Wootton's Green in Canterbury, the ancient capital of the Kentish kingdom in southeast England.

A photograph of the Ethiopian emperor (Negus) Menelik II (r. 1889-1913) wearing his coronation robes and regalia.

Eritrean Ascaris depicted on the newspaper La Tribuna Illustrata (27 November 1898). Wood engraving printed in chromotypography. The scene represents the landing of the French gunboat Scorpion on the coast of Raheita (Eritrea).

The Fiat Tagliero Building is a service station in Asmara, Eritrea. It was designed by the Italian engineer Giuseppe Pettazzi and completed in 1938. It is one of the most iconic buildings in Asmara

Monumental sculpture of the head of Benito Mussolini, the leader of fascist Italy from 1922 to 1945, realised in 1935 near Adwa, Ethiopia. The sculpture was later demolished during the Second World War (1939-45).

Aaron the Moor, Demetrius and a Nurse and Child from Act IV, Scene 2 in William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, painting by Thomas Kirk (1765-1797) Royal Shakespeare Theatre.