Images

A photograph taken during the First World War (1914-18) showing a U-boat of the German Imperial Navy sinking an Allied steamer. (Imperial War Museums)

The captured German Imperial Navy U-26 U-boat during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

Hortensia making a speech before the Second Triumvirate, woodcut illustration (leaf 10r, f. cx) from an incunable German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, printed...

An illustration showing the sinking of the Cunard liner RMS Lusitania. The ship sailed on its maiden voyage in September 1907 and crossed the Atlantic over 200 times. The liner was infamously sunk by a German U-boat on...

A photograph of the First Class (Saloon) dining room of the Cunard liner RMS Lusitania. The ship sailed on its maiden voyage in September 1907 and crossed the Atlantic over 200 times. The liner was infamously...

An oil on canvas painting by Norman Wilkinson of the Cunard liner RMS Lusitania. The ship sailed on its maiden voyage in September 1907 and crossed the Atlantic over 200 times. The liner was infamously sunk by a German...

Representation of the box in which Henry Box Brown was shipped to freedom in 1849. After his successful escape from slavery, many others were inspired to try the same. Image from the Narrative of Henry Box Brown, 1849...

New York Postmaster's Provisional Stamp, USA, 1845. The kind of stamp that may have been used to send enslaved people, such as William "Box" Peel Jones to freedom in 1859.

Portrait of Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), English playwright of the Jacobean Era and frequent collaborator with John Fletcher. This mezzotint print is by Francis Kyte, after an unknown artist, circa 1740s. National Portrait Gallery...

Portrait of the English poet Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), author of The Faerie Queene, oil on oakwood by an unknown artist.