History
Find an image in our collection by selecting one of the links below to take you to the image with a list of format options. All images are available in all three formats unless otherwise stated; large print, UEB Contracted, UEB Uncontracted. We have around 3,000 accessible images covering all sorts of subjects and topics.
A-E
- A Crusader knight and his horse
- A Knight and his horse (UEB Uncontracted)
- A man playing a barrel organ, accompanied by his dancing monkey
- Abraham Lincoln
- Adolf Hitler
- Alvis Saladin- Armoured car
- Amarna letter - section from tablet, second register (UEB Contracted)
- Ancient Egyptian Hunefer's book of the dead
- Ancient Egyptian tomb (plan view)
- Anglo-Saxon framed building
- Anglo-Saxon thane
- Anglo-Saxon warrior
- Army movements at the Battle of Hastings in 1066
- Asafo flag
- Assyrian landscape
- Austrio-Hungarian Europe 1908
- Balkans before World War 1
- Berlin Wall - Relocated Piece
- Blacksmith
- BMP-1 Armoured personnel carrier
- Body parts and their Anglo-Saxon 'wergild' price
- Celtic horse and cart
- Celtic knots
- Celtic peasants
- Celtic stone cross
- Celtic Warrior
- Crossed Swords (UEB Contracted)
- Cup-and-ball
- Cutty Sark - plan of Lower hold (UEB Contracted)
- Cutty Sark - plan of Main Deck, (UEB Contracted)
- Cutty Sark - plan of the Dock (UEB Contracted)
- Cutty Sark - plan of 'Tween Deck (UEB Contracted)
- Depiction of farming in ancient Egypt on a papyrus scroll
- Egyptian carved funerary boat for the body of Pharaoh Khufu, 2650 BC
- Egyptian citizens
- Egyptian dwarf god Bes
- Egyptian Gallery: Egyptian amulets (3) and scarab (UEB Contracted)
- Egyptian Gallery: Egyptian mask of Titos Flavios Demetrios (UEB Contracted)
- Egyptian Gallery: Egyptian men on papyrus raft with oxen and crocodile (UEB Contracted)
- Egyptian Gallery: Egyptian mummified cat (UEB Contracted)
- Egyptian Gallery: Egyptian soldiers, one with amulet and one with spear and shield (UEB Contracted)
- Egyptian Gallery: Four Egyptian canopic jars (UEB Contracted)
- Egyptian Gallery: Jackal, Anubis god of the dead (UEB Contracted)
- Egyptian Gallery: Khnum, god of the Nile (UEB Contracted)
- Egyptian Gallery: Lady Tahathor Egyptian mummy case: face (UEB Contracted)
- Egyptian Gallery: Weighing of the heart, Egyptian Book of the Dead (UEB Contracted)
- Egyptian god Amun Ra (also known as Re or Ra)
- Egyptian god Khnum
- Egyptian god Osiris
- Egyptian goddess Bastet
- Egyptian goddess Isis
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Egyptian wooden-built trading ship, 1500bc
- Elder Futhark runes - Multipage image
G-M
- Gallipoli 1915
- George Washington
- Georgian people ready for a Ball
- German States, or Länder
- German Territorial Losses at Versailles
- Germany and German Speakers 1919
- Germany in 1914
- Germany in 1919
- Great Powers clashed over Morocco
- Greek woman
- Gunpowder plot
- Helmet found at Sutton Hoo
- HMS Endeavour (UEB Uncontracted)
- Hoplite
- Imperial State Crown
- Inuit woman and baby
- Jester and Minstrel
- Kennedy assassination route
- Key and map showing Palestine during Jesus' ministry
- King Charles I
- King Henry VIII (Henry Tudor)
- Knight Memorial Medal - Sketch of Medal Design (UEB Contracted)
- Lascaux Cave Painting- Bird (UEB Uncontracted)
- Lascaux Cave painting- Deer and Hunters (UEB Uncontracted)
- Luftwaffe Aerial Photograph of Isle of Dogs, London
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Man in Rags (UEB Contracted)
- Mao Tse-Tung
- Map - Germany 1918-1939
- Map - Hitler's Targets
- Map - Partition of India
- Map - Partition of India (1947)
- Map - Roman Empire, circa 150AD
- Map - Saxon Britain
- Map - The Tower of London
- Map - The Viking World
- Map of Africa - showing its Countries seized by European Nations
- Map of Britain showing Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the Seventh Century
- Map of Europe - showing the Great Powers and their Alliances in 1907
- Martin Luther King
- Mask of Tutankhamun
N-R
- 'Nelson and Napoleon exhibition' Imperial eagle from the Belle Poule (UEB Contracted)
- 'Nelson and Napoleon exhibition' Napoleon's hat (UEB Contracted)
- 'Nelson and Napoleon exhibition' Nelson's hat (UEB Contracted)
- 'Nelson and Napoleon exhibition' Nelson's Trafalgar uniform (UEB Contracted)
- 'Nelson and Napoleon exhibition' Phrygian cap (UEB Contracted)
- Newcomen's Steam pump (UEB Contracted)
- Norman cavalry man and horse
- Norman Lord and Lady of the Manor
- Norman weapons
- Norse gods Thor and Odin
- Norse gods Tyr and Frigg
- Northern Sector of the Western Front held by the British from 1914
- Phoenician Longship (UEB Uncontracted)
- Photograph of Women's Land Army Timber Girls in Suffolk (UEB Contracted)
- Portraits of Tutankhamun and Cleopatra (UEB Uncontracted)
- Process of mummification in Ancient Egypt
- Puritans
- Rats spreading the Plague
- Roman Chariot and horse
- Roman citizens
- Roman Foot Soldier and Officer
- Roman Hypocaust system
- Roman Merchant Ship, circa 100AD
- Roman mosaic: Duck in vine leaves
- Roman Numerals
- Roman road - cross section
- Roman Soldier
- Roman Town plan (UEB Contracted)
- Round coin with square hole from the Qin state
- Roundhead and Cavalier
- Rubbing of the text of the First Emperor's Mount Yi inscription (UEB Contracted)
S-Z
- Saxon Thane and a Norman Knight
- Scene from the Bayeux tapestry
- Schlieffen Plan
- Second World War Recruitment Poster - "Together" (UEB Contracted)
- Section of Somme Front Line - showing attacks of Light Infantries (UEB Contracted)
- Side view of a Norman catapult
- St. Edward's Crown
- Staffordshire hoard cross
- Staffordshire hoard scabbard boss
- Staffordshire hoard seahorse
- Staffordshire hoard sword hilt collar
- Staffordshire hoard sword hilt plate
- Staffordshire hoard sword pommel cap
- State of Bavaria (UEB Contracted)
- The French Alliances 1920 - 1927 (UEB Contracted)
- The Great Fire of London
- The Plan of 1917 (UEB Contracted)
- Timeline back to the Tudor times (UEB Uncontracted)
- Tonnage of British Shipping lost each year of World War One (UEB Contracted)
- Traction engine
- Traitors' gate
- Trench Lines dug between September & November 1914 (UEB Contracted)
- Trench system
- Tudor family tree (UEB Uncontracted)
- Tudor man in a pillory
- Tudor peasants
- Tudor Rose (UEB Uncontracted)
- Tudor weapons
- Unemployed Germany 1929 - 34 (UEB Contracted)
- Unemployment in Germany 1928-32 (UEB Contracted)
- Unemployment in Germany 1933-39 (UEB Contracted)
- Unification of Germany 1866
- Unification of Germany 1867-71
- Unification of Germany, Prussia in 1865
- Victoria Cross (UEB Contracted)
- Victorian baker and bread oven
- Victorian boy with hoop
- Victorian gentry
- Victorian horse and carriage
- Victorian House - cross section of the left side of the lower floors
- Victorian house - cross section of the right side of the lower floors
- Victorian house with cesspit
- Victorian Noahs Ark
- Viking armament
- Viking artefacts
- Viking king and warrior
- Viking Longship 1 (UEB Uncontracted)
- Viking Longship 2 (UEB Uncontracted)
- Viking peasants
- War around the world
- Western Front
- Whipping top
- Winston Churchill
- Working Class Groups in Germany (UEB Contracted)
- World War 1 - the great powers before WW1
- World War II bombed street
- World War II bren gun
- World War II British foot soldier
- World War II evacuee children
- World War II field gun
- World War II gas mask
- World War II German doodlebug
- World War II German foot soldier
- World War II Japanese foot soldier
- WW1 artillery gun
- WW1 front line trench
- WW1 Trench
- Yeoman Warder and cannon