Search Results: Sir frank m stenton

Portrait of Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532 – 1590), principal secretary and spymaster of Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603). Painting by John de Critz, c. 1589, oil on panel. In the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Sir Roger Manwood (1525-1592), watercolor, copy by George Perfect Harding, after an unknown artist, early 19th century. National Portrait Gallery, London.

Portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1802) of Thomas Pasley (1734-1808), Royal British Navy officer of the 18th century, who served in the American and French revolutionary wars.

Gertrude Bell (l. 1868-1926) was an archaeologist, travel writer, explorer, and political administrator responsible for creating the borders of the countries of the Near East after World War I and, especially, for the foundation of the modern...

In his epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Greek poet Homer (c. 750 BCE) told the story of the Trojan War, a ten-year siege of the city of Troy by an alliance of Greek city-states. Troy was also known by its Latinised name of Ilium...

Sir Toby Belch, a comedic character from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, oil on canvas by George Henry Hall, 1854. Folger Shakespeare Library.

Portrait of explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert by an unknown artist, c. 1584. Compton Castle.

The Jamestown Colony in Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in North America founded in 1607. It was the third attempt of the Virginia Company of London to establish a permanent trade center in the Americas following the failures...

An 1838 painting by David Wilkie showing the discovery of the body of Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore, in a prison cell in Srirangapatna in 1799 at the end of the Anglo-Mysore Wars.

Archaeology is a wide subject and definitions can vary, but broadly, it is the study of the culture and history of past peoples and their societies by uncovering and studying their material remains, i.e. tools, ruins, and pottery. Archaeology...