Images

The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a nationwide conflict in the United States sparked by the secession of eleven Southern states following Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860. The Confederacy, founded on...

A photograph of First World War (1914-18) German dreadnought warships in port. Unknown date or location. (Imperial War Museums)

A May 1912 photograph of HMS Dreadnought, the Royal Navy battleship built in 1906 and which served in the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

The bow of the Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought battleship, built in 1906 and used in the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

A gouache on paper painting titled Watergate 1972-4 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. In front of the Watergate Hotel president Richard Nixon, Washington Post Reporters...

A gouache on paper painting titled Yalta 1945 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. The Yalta conference, February 1945. The big three: Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, posing...

A gouache on paper painting titled Vietnam War Protests by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. In the Upper-right, scenes from the Vietnam war unfold. A vibrant crowd...

A gouache on paper painting titled Malcom X (1925-1965) by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little in 1925, later "El Haj Malek El Shabaz"...

A cover from a 1905 edition of Puck magazine showing a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941). The cartoon is suggesting the German monarch's interest in Morocco in North Africa, epitomised in the Moroccan Crises...

Grave decorations for Day of the Dead, photograph by Eneas De Troya, 2009. Depicted here is a cemetary in San Antonio Tecómitl where the grave plots have been richly adorned for Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos...