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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.

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).

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.

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...

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.

A statue of Henry VII, King of England (r. 1485-1509), built by Harriet Addyman, 2017. The statue sits outside Pembroke Castle, south Wales, where Henry was born in 1457.

An illustration of Saint Edmund being martyred, manuscript illumination, by Abbo of Fleury, in Passio Edmundi, c. 1130. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City.

The Memorial to the Battle of Edington, also refered to as the Battle of Ethandun, is a sarsen stone monolith near Bratton Castle, Wiltshire, commemorating the defeat of the Viking army by Alfred the Great in 878 CE.

Portrait of Emperor Akbar Praying, ink and opaque watercolor on paper, early 17th century, India. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

A statue of Bertha, queen consort of Kent (c. 560-601), by Stephen Melton, 2006. The statue stands in Lady Wootton's Green in Canterbury, the ancient capital of the Kentish kingdom in southeast England.