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Poll tax riot at Trafalgar Square, photograph by James Bourne, London, 31 March 1990. Margaret Thatcher's poll tax was a controversial new fiscal policy she attempted to implement in her final year as prime minister. Although the negative...

Portugal established the first and longest-lasting of Europe’s overseas empires, developing a maritime-commercial network that connected the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans from the 15th century onward. Under rulers such as João I (reign...

Ibn Battuta ((Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī, 1304–c. 1368 CE) was a traveler, jurist, and scholar from Tangier whose journeys across Afro-Eurasia remain among the most extensive recorded in the medieval world. Beginning in...

Uncollected trash during dustmen's strike, photograph by Henry Grant, Camden, London, February 1979. In the late months of 1978 and early days of 1979, uncharacteristically cold and turbulent weather, combined with nationwide strike actions...

Margaret Thatcher and Gerald Ford at the White House, photograph by White House Photographic Office, Washington D.C., 18 September 1975. The United Kingdom's Conservative Party leader, Margaret Thatcher, is seen here meeting with Gerald...

Portrait of Milton Friedman, photograph by Bachrach Studios, New York, 1 January 1986. Milton Friedman was an American economist and academic who was a professor at the University of Chicago and won the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...

An illustrated aerial view of the Suez Canal in Egypt, built between 1859 and 1869. From an 1865 edition of Harper's Weekly magazine.

A 1962 photograph of Egyptian leader Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70), in power from 1954 until his death in 1970.

A 1942 photograph of Anthony Eden, then Foreign Secretary. Eden later served as prime minister (1955-7). Imperial War Museums

A photograph of the Suez Canal Company Building, Port Said, Egypt. Taken during the First World War (1914-18) Imperial War Museums