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Middle Ages

Canterbury pilgrim badge

Martyrdom of Thomas Becket.

Middle Ages

Woodcut of the Knight from The Canterbury Tales. c. 1490.

Middle Ages

16th Century

"Temptation of St. Anthony" from Jacques Callot's Miroir De Son Temps.

Edward VI and the Pope: An Allegory of the Reformation (circa 1568–71)

16th Century

Mary, Queen of Scots, the object of England's "Rough Wooing."

16th Century

Early 17th Century

Creation of Adam. Michelangelo (1475–1564)

King's and Queen's costumes. Inigo Jones.

Early 17th Century

Sketches of Irish costumes by Lucas de Heere

Early 17th Century

Restoration and the 18th Century

London ladies shopping for fabric

Examining a slave

Restoration and the 18th Century

A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery, in Which

a Lamp Is Put in Place of the Sun (1766). Joseph Wright

Restoration and the 18th Century

Romantic Period

From p. 4 of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

Percy Bysshe Shelley (ca. 1829)

Romantic Period

Illustration from Lalla Rookh, 1817.

Romantic Period

Victorian Age

Hard Times (1885). Hubert von Herkomer.

The first women students to be admitted to the University of Cambridge, photographed at Hitchin,

1869

Victorian Age

Queen Victoria and her servant Abdul Karim,

1893.

Victorian Age

20th Century

Trains piled with refugees in Amritsar, India (1947)

Smoke billows over a landscape under fire from a United States Air Force B-25 bomber (ca. 1940).

20th Century

William Butler Yeats (ca. 1930). Ireland

20th Century