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Frankenstein's Monster
The Origins of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
Celebrations for Jamaican Independence, 2012.
Jamaican Independence
Cover of The British Way of War by Andrew Lambert
Redefining Strategy in 20th Century Britain
French soldiers overrun Chinese troops during the 1860 campaign in the Second Opium War.
The Second Opium War
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd
General Idi Amin in August, 1973.
Idi Amin's Coup d’État, Uganda 1971
A depiction of the burning of Louisa Mabree, a French midwife and convicted witch, in a cage filled with black cats
The Rise of Freethinkers
Image reading "there is no news tonight"
“No News Day” at the BBC
This 1878 engraving shows the chaos at the scene of the Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre
A 1939 reconstruction of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The Treaty of Waitangi
A Biafran child suffering the effects of starvation due to the federal blockade during the Nigerian Civil War
“No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War
Graffiti reading "Ireland a Nation, Irish and Free"
The Provisional Irish Republican Army
Amritsar Massacre
The Amritsar Massacre (1919)
Sir Christopher Wren
The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science
Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective
Highclere Castle, the main setting for Downton Abbey.
At the Movies: Downton Abbey
illustration of Prince George IV
Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?
portion of a movie poster for the movie Mary Queen of Scots, directed by Josie Rourke
At the Movies: Mary Queen of Scots
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916
The Amritsar Massacre
Banksy mural of worker chipping star off EU flag
Brexit: Dividing the United Kingdom
“The great financier, or British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765.” This British cartoon depicts the American colonies as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the disconnect between the colonies and the metropole even though the colonists thought of themselves as full British subjects.
The Old Informing the New
Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Queen Elizabeth I in Parliament
The Pandora’s Box of Religious Pluralism in the English Reformation
Under Attlee's direction, the Labour Party's position on foreign affairs in the 1930s was somewhat inconsistent. A believer in the "collective security" represented by the League of Nations, Attlee opposed rearmament even as he pushed for firmer measures against Nazi aggression.
A Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing