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Victor Emmanuel II knocking on the door of Naples, 1861. Artist: John Tenniel
 
Discussion over the future ruler of unified Italy, 1860. Artist: Unknown
 
Giuseppe Garibaldi trying to persuade Pope Pius IX, 1860. Artist: John Tenniel
 
Frontispiece of Denis Diderot Encyclopedie, Paris, 1751-80. Artist: Unknown
 
Protestants in the Netherlands executed for heresy during Duke of Alva's repressive rule (1567-73). Artist: Unknown
 
Decapitation of Count Egmont and Hoorn at Brussels during Spanish tyranny in Netherlands, 1568. Artist: Unknown
 
Spanish Execution of Huguenots, c1565. Artist: Unknown
 
Spanish troops torching buildings and massacring during Spanish rule in Netherlands, 1567-73. Artist: Unknown
 
Burning of John Badby for heresy, 1410 (1848). Artist: Unknown
 
John Oldcastle, Lollard leader, hung and burnt hanging for denying transubstantiation, 1417(1848). Artist: Unknown
 
Title page of Andreas Vesalius 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica', showing Vesalius dissecting body, 1543. Artist: Andreas Vesalius
 
'Man is but a Worm', cartoon from Punch showing evolution from worm to man, 1881. Artist: Unknown
 
Pigeons used by Charles Darwin at Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, England, 1887. Artist: Unknown
 
'The New Photographic Looking Glass', cartoon from Punch, everyday proof of man's origins, 1861. Artist: Unknown
 
Slave quarters on a plantation in Georgia, USA. Artist: Unknown
 
Boston Tea Party, 26 December 1773. Artist: Unknown
 
Boston Tea Party, 26 December 1773. Artist: Unknown
 
Riot by railway workers at Martinsbury on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, August, 1877. Artist: Unknown
 
Race between Peter Cooper's locomotive 'Tom Thumb' and a horse-drawn railway carriage, 1829. Artist: Unknown
 
Boston mob attempting to force government Stamp Officer to resign, c1773. Artist: Unknown
 
Negro labour strengthening the fortifications of Savannah, Georgia, American Civil War, 1863. Artist: Unknown
 
Negro labour loading sacks of cotton on cart, Southern states of USA. Artist: Unknown
 
Negro labourers weeding cotton under the eyes of a mounted white overseer, Southern states of USA. Artist: Unknown
 
Slave auction shop, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, c1860-62. Artist: Unknown
 
Novalis (1772-1801), pen-name of Friedrich von Hardenberg, German Romantic poet and novelist. Artist: Unknown
 
Albert (1819-1861), Prince Consort of Queen Victoria, 1850. Artist: Unknown
 
Albert (1819-1861), Prince Consort of Queen Victoria, at the Great Exhibition, 1851. Artist: John Tenniel
 
Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria, and Joseph Paxton, 1851. Artist: John Tenniel
 
Funeral of Albert, Prince Consort, 1861. Artist: Unknown
 
Irish emigrants embarking for America at Waterloo Docks, Liverpool, 1850. Artist: Unknown
 
Louis XIV of France visiting the Gobelins tapestry works, 17th century (late 19th century). Artist: Unknown
 
'Great Texas oil fire at Humble, near Houston, Texas', USA, 1909. Artist: Unknown
 
Palace of Horticulture, World's Fair, St Louis, Missouri, USA, 1904. Artist: Unknown
 
Titanic Memorial, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2010.
 
Newspaper boy with news of the Titanic disaster, 14 April 1912. Artist: Unknown
 
Members of the crew of the Titanic in their life jackets, 1912. Artist: Unknown
 
Reports of the sinking of the 'Titanic' arrive in New York, USA, April 1912.. Artist: Unknown
 
The RMS 'Titanic' leaving Southampton, 10 April 1912. Artist: Unknown
 
View from the 'Carpathia' of a lifeboat from the 'Titanic' brought alongside, 15 April, 1912. Artist: Unknown
 
Anxious crowds outside the White Star Line office, 1912 (1937). Artist: Sport & General
 
Lifeboats from the SS Titanic, 1912. Artist: Unknown
 
The sinking of SS Titanic, 14 April 1912. Artist: Unknown
 
Prayers at the scene of the sinking of the Titanic, 1912. Artist: Unknown
 
'Toll of the Sea', the sinking of the 'Titanic', 1912. Artist: Unknown
 
The 'Titanic' colliding with an iceberg, 1912. Artist: Unknown
 
Heroic wireless operators, 1912. Artist: Unknown
 
Two views of the destruction of the Armoury in the Tower of London by fire, 30 October 1841. Artist: W Kohler & Co
 
Destruction of the Armoury in the Tower of London by fire, 30 October 1841. Artist: William C Smith
 
The Tower of London the morning after the fire in the Armoury on 30 October 1841. Artist: Thomas Shotter Boys
 
Fire at the Armoury in the Tower of London, 30 October 1841. Artist: Anon
 
Fire at the Armoury in the Tower of London, 30 October 1841. Artist: Thomas Colman Dibdin
 
Fire at the Alhambra Theatre, Leicester Square, London, 1882 (1883). Artist: William Dickes
 
'The Stone Age. A Feast', 1883.  Artist: Viktor Mihajlovic Vasnecov
 
'The last Day of Pompeii', 1833.  Artist: Karl Briullov
 
'Camille Desmoulins in the Palais Royal Gardens', 1848-1849.  Artist: Honoré Daumier
 
'A Procuress', c1530.
 
Princess Birgitta of Sweden and Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern, 1961. Artist: Unknown
 
The wedding of Silvia Sommerlath and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Stockholm, 19 June 1976. Artist: Unknown
 
The wedding of Silvia Sommerlath and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Stockholm, 19 June 1976. Artist: Unknown
 
Royal wedding, Stockholm, Sweden, 25 May 1961. Artist: Unknown