Images

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), litograph by J. Borchert, after the drawing of N.C. Kierkegaard, c. 1840. The Royal Library, National Collections Department, Prints and Photographs, Copenhagen.

A May 1941 photograph showing firefighters in Queen Victoria Street during the London Blitz. (Imperial War Museums)

Women volunteers of the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) during the London Blitz. They are plotting the distribution of fire engines on a map of London in the regional control centre. (Imperial War Museums)

A British recruitment poster calling for women volunteers for the Air Raid Precautions Service (ARP) and Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) during the London Blitz. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of an Auxiliary Fire Service unit in London during the London Blitz. (Imperial War Museums)

Legendary king Frotho (Frodi), detail of a woodcut by Petter Lorens Hoffbro, representing some of the kings listed in Johannes Magnus' Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sveonumque regibus and all Swedish monarchs from Gustav Vasa to Gustav III...

Attack on New Ulm, depicting the assault on the town of New Ulm, Minnesota, on 19 August 1862 at the beginning of the Dakota War, oil on canvas painting by Anton Gág, 1904. Minnesota Historical Society, Gale Family Library.

Dakota Sioux Chief Little Crow (l. c. 1810-1863), famous for his leadership during the Dakota War of 1862. Photograph by Julian Vannerson (l. 1827-1875), taken in 1857/1858.

A self-portrait of British Major John André (1750-1780) drawn on 1 October 1780, the night before he was hanged by the Continental Army for espionage. Yale University Manuscripts & Archives collection.

Execution of Major John André during the American Revolutionary War, illustration from the New, Complete and Authentic History of England by Edward Barnard, 1791.