Images

A photograph of the oceanographic research ship Calypso, used by Jacques-Yves Cousteau for various expeditions from 1951 until the mid-1990s. Taken in Montreal in 1980.

A photograph of London's Hatton Garden, an area which specialises in gold dealers and jewellery shops.

An aerial view of Heathrow International Trading Estate. This was the location of the infamous Brink's-Mat robbery, Britain's largest ever gold heist in 1983.

A photograph of 400 oz gold bullion 999.9 bars.

A photograph showing victims of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka. This massacre occurred around January 1919 in the Palermo forest, near Rakvere, Estonia.

A photograph of a group of Red Guards militia outside their factory during the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917. Vulcan factory, Petrograd.

Frederick Douglass in his early 30s, daguerreotype by Samuel J. Miller, circa 1847-52. Art Institute of Chicago.

A 1920 Bolshevik propaganda poster issued after the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 to convey the message that the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) was clearing Russia of its enemies. The title reads: "Comrade Lenin cleans...

A 1920 photograph of Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Lenin led the Bolshevik faction of socialists in pre-revolution Russia and then seized power in November 1917 in the Bolshevik Revolution, becoming head of the Soviet state.

The Collier Brig 'Mary', showing two views of the same vessel, oil on canvas painting by John Scott, 1855. This brig would have been similar to the Creole, famous for the 1841 Creole Mutiny, the most successful slave revolt in US history...