Images

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), photograph by Benjamin Dexter Maxham, 1856. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

Title page from the first edition of Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

Plaque commemorating Thoreau's night in jail. Concord, Massachusetts, USA.

North American red fox photographed in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA by Lvaughn7 in 2015.

The First Crusade (1096–1099) was a pivotal military expedition initiated by Western European Christians in response to Pope Urban II’s call at the Council of Clermont in 1095. Aimed at reclaiming Jerusalem and other holy sites in the Levant...

North American bald eagle. Photograph taken in Kachemak Bay, Alaska by Andy Morffew, 2016.

This infographic illustrates the Varna caste system in ancient India. First mentioned in the Rig Veda's Purusha Sukta c. 1200–1000 BCE, it shows society divided into four groups that emerged from the sacrifice of Purusha, a transcendent and...

A modern (and speculative) colourisation of a 1941 photograph showing troops of Germany's Afrika Korps in North Africa during the Second World War (1939-45).

The emblem on a tank of the Deutsches Afrika Korps, Germany's armoured divisions active in North Africa during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

The German commander Erwin Rommel inspects the German Afrika Korps in North Africa in March 1941. He is accompanied by General Garibaldo on the left. (Imperial War Museums)