Images

Consipiracy of Amboise, March 1560, engraving by Jacques Tortorel. National Library of France, Paris.

The Battle of Jarnac (13 March 1569), engraving by an unknown artist, 16th century.

Louis I de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (1530-1569), oil on panel by an unknown French painter, 16th century. Palace of Versailles.

A colourised photograph of a Heinkel He 111 bomber plane, flown by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War (1939-45). (Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-385-0587-07)

The Mali Empire (c. 1235 - c. 1672) emerged in the western Sahel following the decline of the Ghana Empire and rose to prominence under the leadership of Sundiata Keita (reigned c. 1235 - 1255). Consolidating Mandé-speaking territories along...

A photograph showing Adolf Hitler in Paris after the Fall of France in 1940. On the left is Albert Speer (Hitler's favourite architect and future Armaments Minister) and on the right is Arno Breker (architect and sculptor). Taken on 23 June...

A photograph showing tanks of the German 6th Panzer Division in 1940. (Imperial War Museums)

A map showing the German advances through Belgium, the Netherlands, and France which isolated the British Expeditionary Force and necessitated the Dunkirk evacuation of May-June 1940. (United States Military Academy)

An RAF Lockheed Hudson conducting reconnaissance during the Dunkirk evacuation of May-June 1940. The smoke is coming from the damaged oil refinery near the port. (Imperial War Museums)

A 1940 painting by Charles Ernest Cundall titled The Withdrawal from Dunkirk showing the Dunkirk evacuation of May-June 1940. (Imperial War Museums)