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The statue shows Edith Swanneck finding the body of the English king Harold Godwinson (r. Jan-Oct 1066) on the field of the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It was built by Charles Augustus William Wilke, 1875...

A statue of Edward the Confessor, King of England (r. 1042-1066) outside St Edward's Hall at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. It was installed by Froc-Robert & Sons, 1883, a religious statue manufacturer.

A Statue of Saint Oswald, King of Northumbria (r. 634-642) on the front of the Church of San Stae, in Venice, Italy, by Italian artist Giuseppe Torretto (1661-1743).

Alfred the Great taking refuge in a cottage and burning the cakes (as told in the tale of Alfred and the Cakes), illustration from page 50 of A Chronicle of England, B.C. 55-A.D. 1485 by James William Edmund Doyle, 1864.

By c. 1750, Africa stood at the center of three major slave-trading systems, the transatlantic, trans-Saharan, and Indian Ocean trades, each connecting African societies to wider global economies. These networks...

A statue of Richard III, King of England (r. 1483-1485), designed by James Butler, 1980. The statue is located in Leicester, England, near where Richard died in the Battle of Bosworth Field.

A statue of Henry VII, King of England (r. 1485-1509), built by Harriet Addyman, 2017. The statue sits outside Pembroke Castle, south Wales, where Henry was born in 1457.

An illustration of Saint Edmund being martyred, manuscript illumination, by Abbo of Fleury, in Passio Edmundi, c. 1130. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City.

The Memorial to the Battle of Edington, also refered to as the Battle of Ethandun, is a sarsen stone monolith near Bratton Castle, Wiltshire, commemorating the defeat of the Viking army by Alfred the Great in 878...

Portrait of Emperor Akbar Praying, ink and opaque watercolor on paper, early 17th century, India. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.