Images

A photograph of Karen Blixen's bungalow in Kenya, now the Karen Blixen Museum. Blixen managed a coffee farm here and wrote of her experiences in the 1937 book Out of Africa. The bungalow was built around 1912.

The Ensigns of Royalty Resigned by Edward II, illustration published by Henry Delahoy Symonds, 29 March 1796. A figure, perhaps Roger Mortimer, outstretches his hand to take the royal sceptre from the deposed king Edward II, who would be...

Edward the Third Seizing Mortimer, illustration appearing in The Political Register, April 1768. In this dramatic print, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, is captured by the young king Edward III, son of the deposed and slain Edward II...

By c. 240 BCE, Ptolemaic Egypt stood as one of the most powerful and stable successor states of Alexander’s empire, reaching a high point under Ptolemy III Euergetes (reign 246-222 BCE). Emerging from the fragmentation that followed the death...

In his description of Caesarea Maritima, Flavius Josephus mentions a theater and amphitheater. With several restorations through the years, the theater, as it commands a view of the sea, is still used today. About 1 kilometer south of Herod's...

An 1857 illustration showing an attack on a colonial bungalow in Meerut, northern India during the Sepoy Mutiny. The Illustrated London News

Guy Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and Piers Gaveston Earl of Cornwall 1330, illustration by T. Tovey after a miniature in the 15th-century Rous Roll, 1793. Depicted on the right stands a triumphant Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, upon the...

Keep of Scarborough, Yorkshire, illustration by George Shepherd after William Tombleson, c. 1806-1836. In the spring of 1312, Piers Gaveston, companion and favourite of Edward II, was besieged at Scarborough Castle, where he soon surrendered...

Casket panel of a knight, ivory carving, Paris, France, c. 1325-1350. Depicted here is a Parisian carving of a dismounted knight running their sword through a figure wielding a club. On the right, the knight grasps the hand of a bearded...

A cartoon by J.M. Staniforth of the Fashoda Incident of 1898 when France and Britain almost went to war over their competing claims for control of the Upper Nile.