Images

A photograph showing British troops arresting a Mau Mau suspect during the Mau Mau rebellion (1952-60) in British-controlled Kenya. Imperial War Museums, UK.

A 1949 photograph of the Kenyan nationalist leader Jomo Kenyatta (1894-1978). Kenyatta became Kenya's first prime minister when the country gained independence in 1963 and then its first president in 1964 until his death in...

A photograph of two Kikuyu tribesmen working as members of a counter-gang tracking down Mau Mau rebels in British Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion (1952-60). Imperial War Museums, UK.

A safe conduct pass dropped in rebel areas of British Kenya to encourage members of the Mau Mau rebellion (1952-60) to give themselves up to the authorities.

An 1899 watercolour and graphite painting by Winslow Homer (1836-1910) titled Flower Garden and Bungalow, Bermuda. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A photograph of the colonial bungalow Goldeneye, which was the home of James Bond author Ian Fleming (1908-64).

A photograph of a colonial bungalow in Nigeria. 1880-1905. © The Trustees of the British Museum

A photograph of a colonial-inspired bungalow in Austin, Texas. The bungalow was constructed in 1911 for May Brownlee, the widow of Dr. John Samuel Brownlee.

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...