Images

A photograph of Pyotr Stolypin (1862-1911), Russian prime minister to Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) from 1906 to 1911. The Stolypin reforms improved the status, education, and civil rights of many Russians, especially land-owning peasants...

A 1905 painting by Vladimir Makovsky depicting Bloody Sunday in 1905 when on 22 January peaceful protestors led by Father Georgy Gapon (1870-1906) wished to present Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) with a petition of reforms but were shot...

Passmore Williamson, abolitionist, in Moyamensing Prison in 1855, portrait by Emil Luders, lithograph by Augustus Kollner, published by Thomas Curtis, Philadelphia, c. 1855. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Passmore Williamson, abolitionist and member of the Underground Railroad, c. 1856-1860, photograph by Guterkunst & Brothers, 1856-1860. Boston Public Library.

A 1909 photograph of Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917), ruler of the Russian Empire.

A 1905 photograph of the Russian Orthdox priest Georgy Gapon (1870-1906). On Bloody Sunday in 1905 peaceful protestors led by Gapon wished to present Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) with a petition of reforms but were shot down by soldiers...

An illustration showing Bloody Sunday in 1905 when on 22 January peaceful protestors led by Father Georgy Gapon (1870-1906) wished to present Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) with a petition of reforms but were shot down by soldiers outside...

Jane Johnson emancipates herself and her children by walking away from her former 'master', John Hill Wheeler, into the free city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in July 1855. Illustration from The Underground Railroad by William Still, 1872...

A photograph taken in 1917 during the First World War (1914-18) showing a U-boat (UC-1 class) of the German Imperial Navy. This type of submarine was used to lay mines. Imperial War Museums, London.

A photograph of German U-boats and their pens, taken in Trondheim, Norway in 1945 at the end of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)