Images

An illustration depicting the arrival of gypsies (Romani) in Bern, modern-day Switzerland. From the late 15th-century chronicle Spiezer Schilling by the Swiss author Diebold Schilling the Elder (c. 1436–1486).

Votive cone with cuneiform inscription of Lipit-Eshtar, from Mesopotamia, c. 1934-1924 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Prologue to the Code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (r. c. 1870 to c. 1860 BCE), the fifth king of the First Dynasty of Isin. Louvre, Paris.

An infographic illustrating Hesiod's Theogony (literally meaning "Birth of the Gods") - the earliest known and the only complete account of the origins of the universe and the gods according to ancient Greek mythology and tradition. Traditionally...

A trade union scroll for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, created in January 1851. The scroll shows illustrations of important engineers and inventions during the Industrial Revolution. (Science Museum, London)

A child worker in a cotton mill, Georgia, USA. Photograph taken in 1909. (Library of Congress, USA)

The Doctor, oil on canvas painting by Sir Luke Fildes (1843-1927), English Neo-Venetian artist, 1891. The painting shows a Victorian doctor watching over a sick child in a fisherman’s cottage while dawn breaks through the window. On one...

The Allied plan of attack for the Battle of Tourcoing, devised on 16 May 1794, carried out on 17 May. Map by Talamioros, 2 January 2022, superimposed on OpenStreetMap.

A depiction of the first day of the Battle of Tourcoing, 17 May 1794. Map by Talamioros, 2 January 2022; superimposed on OpenStreetMap.

A depiction of the second day of the Battle of Tourcoing, 18 May 1794. Map by Talamioros, 2 January 2022, superimposed on OpenStreetMap.