Images

A 1900 photographic postcard showing Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), founder of the Zeppelin airship company in Germany. (German Federal Archives)

A 1930 photograph showing the Zeppelin airship USS Los Angeles (formerly LZ 126) flying over Manhattan, New York. The Los Angeles was acquired by the United States Navy for experimental use. (U.S. Naval Historical Center)

Anglo-Saxon depiction of a biblical king and his council - likely inspired by the councils/witans contemporary to the artist - Old English Illustrated Hexateuch, Cotton Claudius B IV, f 59. British Library, London.

Miranda in La Carraca, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the death of Francisco de Miranda on 14 July 1816 in the prison of La Carraca, Spain, oil on canvas painting by Arturo Michelena, 1896. National Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.

The Tomb of Empress Nur Jahan (1577-1645), constructed from red sandstone and elegantly decorated with pietra dura inlay in the mid-17th century in Shahdara Bagh, Lahore, Pakistan.

Interior of the Grand Synagogue of Edirne, one of the largest synagogues in the Balkans, completed in 1909.

The Coronation Stone is an ancient sarsen stone block recording the coronations of seven Anglo-Saxon kings: Edward the Elder, Aethelstan, Edmund I, Eadred, Eadwig the Fair, Edward the Martyr and Aethelred the Unready, at Kingston-upon-Thames...

Emperor Haile Selassie's (1892-1975) League of Nations speech in 1936 against the Fascist Italian invasion. Bettmann Archive.

Ethiopian men gather in Addis Ababa, heavily armed with captured Italian weapons, to hear the proclamation announcing the return to the capital of the Emperor Haile Selassie in May 1941. Imperial War Museums, London.

A 1915 photograph of Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917), shown in the centre, in his role as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the Russian Empire during the First World War (1914-18).