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Statue of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (r. 1553-1558), designed by Hamo Thornycroft, 1899. Outside the House of Commons, Westminster, London.

Statue of William III of England, designed by German artist Heinrich Baucke, 1907. Outside Kensington Palace, London.

Statue of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, who ruled as Queen of England and Scotland (r. 1702-1707) and then as Queen of Great Britain (r. 1707-1714), designed by Richard Claude Belt and Louis-August Malempre, 1712. Outside...

The Copper Horse statue, depicting George III of Great Britain (r. 1760-1820) as a Roman emperor on horseback. Designed by Richard Westmacott, 1829. Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, England.

Statue of Queen Victoria (r. 1837-1901), designed by Thomas Brock, 1906. Bangalore, southern India.

The King George V Memorial, commemorating George V, king of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions (r. 1910-1936) in Melbourne, Australia, designed by William Leslie Bowles, 1952. The image shows the statue before it...

Statue of George VI, king of the United Kindgom (r. 1936-1952), designed by Gilbert Ledward, 1958. Zoological and Botanical Gardens of Hong Kong.

Statue of Queen Elizabeth II (r. 1952-2022). The design was selected by the queen herself and built by stonemason Richard Bossons to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee in 2022. York Minster, northern England.

The Italian Colonial Empire emerged during the period of New Imperialism (late 19th–early 20th centuries) as the recently unified Kingdom of Italy sought to secure...

Escaped slave Gordon, also known as "Whipped Peter," formerly enslaved on a cotton plantation along the Atchafalaya River, showing his scarred back at a medical examination, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After the whipping...