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Statue of Margaret of Anjou
A statue of Margaret of Anjou, queen consort of England (r. 1445-1471). Margaret was married to Henry VI of England (r. 1422-1461 and 1470-71). Statue by Ferdinand Taluet, 1877, in Luxembourg Garden, Paris.
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Statue of King Aethelstan
A statue of Aethelstan, King of England (r. 927-939), in Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, northern England, sculpted by William Collins, 1781.
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Statue of Edward I of England
A statue of Edward I of England (r. 1272-1307), also known as 'Longshanks', built by Christopher Kelly, 2007. It is located in Burgh by Sands, Cumbria, northwest England, where Edward died in 1307 while marching north to invade Scotland.
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Statue of Matilda of Flanders
A statue of Matilda of Flanders, queen consort of England and wife of William the Conqueror (r. 1066-1087), built by French Artist Carle Elshoecht, 1850, in Luxembourg Garden, Paris.
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Statue of Harold Godwinson and Edith Swanneck
The statue shows Edith Swanneck finding the body of the English king Harold Godwinson (r. Jan-Oct 1066) on the field of the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It was built by Charles Augustus William Wilke, 1875, a few miles from the battlefield...
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Statue of Edward the Confessor
A statue of Edward the Confessor, King of England (r. 1042-1066) outside St Edward's Hall at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. It was installed by Froc-Robert & Sons, 1883, a religious statue manufacturer.
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Statue of St Oswald, Venice
A Statue of Saint Oswald, King of Northumbria (r. 634-642) on the front of the Church of San Stae, in Venice, Italy, by Italian artist Giuseppe Torretto (1661-1743).
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Alfred and the Cakes
Alfred the Great taking refuge in a cottage and burning the cakes (as told in the tale of Alfred and the Cakes), illustration from page 50 of A Chronicle of England, B.C. 55-A.D. 1485 by James William Edmund Doyle, 1864.
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The African Slave Trade, c. 1750
By 1750, Africa had emerged as the center of three major slave-trading systems: the transatlantic, trans-Saharan, and Indian Ocean trades. These interconnected networks linked African societies to European, Middle Eastern, and Asian markets...
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Statue of Richard III
A statue of Richard III, King of England (r. 1483-1485), designed by James Butler, 1980. The statue is located in Leicester, England, near where Richard died in the Battle of Bosworth Field.
