World History Archive May 2016 59-69

World war two British propaganda poster. 'Save for the Brave' 1941

World war two British propaganda poster. 'Keep Calm and Carry On' 1942

World war two British propaganda poster. 'Don't be a sucker' 1944

World war two British propaganda poster. 'careless talk costs lives' 1940

World war two; Battle of Britain propaganda poster. 'Never was so much owed by so many to so few'. This was a wartime speech made by the British Prime...

McLean Hospital (known as Somerville Asylum or Charlestown Asylum) a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. Founded in 1811

McLean Hospital (known as Somerville Asylum or Charlestown Asylum) a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. Founded in 1811

John McLean (March 11, 1785 - April 4, 1861) was an American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster Genera...

artist's concept above shows the Pluto system from the surface of one of the smaller moons 2015

Artist's Concept Pluto's South Pole 2015

Artist's Concept Pluto's South Pole 2015

Pluto, NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken from 2002 to 2003

Pluto, NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken from 2002 to 2003

Suit of armour belonging to Hern?n Cortes (1485 - 1547); Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and broug...

Mayan relief from a temple in Mexico circa 900 AD

Christopher Columbus; woodcut illustration from a Spanish book 16th Century

Medal issued to Hern?n Cortes(1485 - 1547); Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large port...

Coat of arms belonging to Hernando Cortes (1485 - 1547); Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and broug...

mayan statue of a god circa 900 AD

mayan statue of a priest; circa 900 AD

mayan statue of a god circa 900 AD

Artist's conception of clouds in Pluto's atmosphere.

New Horizons, interplanetary space probe, launched as part of NASA's New Frontiers program, to study Pluto, its moons and the Kuiper belt 2015

Pedro de la Gasca (June 1485 - November 13, 1567) was a Spanish bishop, diplomat and the second (acting) viceroy of Peru

Pedro de la Gasca (June 1485 - November 13, 1567) was a Spanish bishop, diplomat and the second (acting) viceroy of Peru

Blasco N?nez Vela y Villalba (c. 1490 - January 18, 1546) was the first Spanish viceroy of Peru, from May 15, 1544 to January 18, 1546

Illustration depicting a mayan god, from Mexico 19th Century.

Dominican convent, Atzcapotzalco, central Mexico founded in the 12th Century by the Aztecs. Hern?n Cortes later set up smelters there to melt Mexican...

The Church and monastery of Santo Domingo de Guzm?n, a Baroque building in Oaxaca, Mexico. Begun in 1570, they were constructed over a period of 200 y...

Bartolome de las Casas, O.P. (c. 1484[1] - 18 July 1566) was a 16th-Century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. He became the firs...

Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, (1436 - November 8, 1517), Spanish cardinal, religious, and statesman. rose to the heights of power becoming a religiou...

Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, (1436 - November 8, 1517), Spanish cardinal, religious, and statesman. rose to the heights of power becoming a religiou...

sepulcre of Hernan Cortes in the Church of Jes?s Nazareno, Mexico City, Mexico. located at the spot where Hern?n Cortes and Moctezuma II met for the f...

Charles V also known as Charles I (Carlos I) (1500 - 1558), King of Spain and Emperor of the Spanish Empire from 1516. later, as Charles V he was rule...

Peruvian Inca pottery artefacts drawn in 19th Century

drawing of an artificial eye from n Inca Mummy in Peru; 19th Century

drawing of an Inca hatchet ring, Peru; 19th Century

Juan Garc?a de Loaysa y Mendoza (1478 in Talavera de la Reina, near Toledo, Spain - 22 April 1546 in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish Archbishop of Sevill...

The Palace at Ake, an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the municipality of Tixkokob,in the Mexican state of Yuca...

Statuette of the god ancient Egyptian God Osiris. Bronze. Late Period (715-332 BC). In a bloody battle, Seth dismembered Osiris and spread his remains...

Statuette of the god ancient Egyptian God Osiris. Bronze. Late Period (715-332 BC). In a bloody battle, Seth dismembered Osiris and spread his remains...

Statuette of the god ancient Egyptian God Osiris. Bronze. Late Period (715-332 BC). In a bloody battle, Seth dismembered Osiris and spread his remains...

Statuette of the god ancient Egyptian God Osiris. Bronze. Late Period (715-332 BC). In a bloody battle, Seth dismembered Osiris and spread his remains...

Statuette of the god ancient Egyptian God Osiris. Bronze. Late Period (715-332 BC). In a bloody battle, Seth dismembered Osiris and spread his remains...

Statuette of the god ancient Egyptian God Osiris. Bronze. Late Period (715-332 BC). In a bloody battle, Seth dismembered Osiris and spread his remains...

Ancient Egyptian votive stela. Wood. Late Period (715-332 BC). the god Osiris is depicted

Ionic portico designed by Robert Adam, at the entrance to Kenwood House in Hampstead, London dates from the 18th Century.

Ionic portico designed by Robert Adam, at the entrance to Kenwood House in Hampstead, London dates from the 18th Century.

Covered evergreen arbre at Kenwood House in Hampstead, London dates from the 18th Century.

Ancient Egyptian votive stela. Limestone. Stela belonging to Padiset. Limestone. 19th-20th Dynasties (1307-1070 BC). the god Osiris is depicted