Rachel Gibbons (editor) - Exploring history 1400-1900 : An anthology of primary sources

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List of illustrations

1.1 The King in Parliament. The Royal Collection 2005, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

1.2 Jacques Coeurs hotel. From Franois Guizot, History of France from the Earliest Times , trans. R. Black, 6 vols., Boston, D. Estes & C.E. Lauriat, 1880, vol. III, p. 169. Reprinted with the permission of the British Library.

1.3 Ducal hat. From Hugo van der Velden, The Donors Image , Turnhout, Brepols, 2000, Burgundica II, fig. 34, p. 56. Reproduced with the permission of the Austrian National Library, picture archives, Vienna: Cod. 8614, fol. 8r.

1.4 Holy Week confession. From Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 14001580 , Yale UP, 1992, plate 19, by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.

2.1 True vs. False Church. From Geisbergs Einblattholzschnitt , reference CEA 5075.

2.2 Portrait of Mathis Pfarrer (14891568). From the Bibliothque nationale de France.

2.3 Coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. From Stephen Hawes, A Joyfull Medytacyon , 1509, London, by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.

2.4 The Church of Christ. From the Bibliothque nationale de France.

3.1 Charles I on trial in Westminster Hall. From Pauline Gregg, King Charles I , London, J.M. Dent, 1981; plate 18. Reprinted with the permission of The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, shelfmark MO5.E12105.

3.2 Parliamentarian soldiers breaking down Laudian altar rails. From John Vicars, A Sight of the Transactions of these Latter Years Emblemised with Engraven Plates which Men may Read without Spectacles , London, 1646, p. 7. Reprinted with the permission of the British Library.

3.3 Great Chalfield Manor. Courtesy of Craig Thornber, Macclesfield.

3.4 Plan of Londonderry, 1689. From George Walker, A True Account of the Siege of London-derry , Edinburgh, 1689. Reprinted with the permission of The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, shelfmark C 9.6(1) Linc.

4.1 Am I not a man and a brother? Wedgwood jasper medallion decorated with a slave in chains and inscribed with Am I not a Man and a Brother, 1790s (ceramic) Wilberforce House, Hull City Museums and Art Galleries, UK / The Bridgeman Art Library.

4.2 Toussaint Breda (LOuverture). Portrait of Toussaint LOuverture (17431803) from the Universal History of the 19th Century engraved by Joseph Julien Guillaume Dulompre (b. 1789) (engraving) (b/w photo), Duc (eighteenth century) (after) / Bibliothque Nationale, Paris, France, Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library.

4.3 Plan of a slavers ship. The Slave Ship Brookes, publ. by James Phillips, London, c. 1800 (wood engraving and letterpress), English School (nineteenth century) / Private Collection, Michael Graham-Stewart / The Bridgeman Art Library.

5.1 Sovereignty of the People. Vox Populi, or, A Bully that must be put down. Cartoon by Matt Morgan in The Tomahawk , 7 December, 1867. Credit line: Mary Evans Picture Library.

5.2 Westgate Hotel, Chartist riot, 1839. Chartists Attack on the Westgate Hotel, Newport, November 4th 1840, 1893 (litho), Mullock, James Flewitt (181892) / Newport Museum and Art Gallery, South Wales / The Bridgeman Art Library.

5.3 La Republique Triomphante. Document conserv au Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris: AE/11/3584.

6.1 The Rhodes Colossus. Cecil Rhodes Statesman, financier, imperialist. Caricatured as a colossus bestriding Africa. Cartoon by Linley Sambourne in Punch , 10 December 1892. Credit line: Mary Evans Picture Library.

6.2 Whites visiting a Congolese village. Ren Schoentjes, Schma dune ville congolaise, Bulletin des Sances, Royal Belgian Colonial Institute, Brussels 1993 Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.

6.3 Carving up China (Le Gteau des Rois). The Royal Cake or The Western Empires sharing China between them. L-R: Queen Victoria (18371901), Kaiser Wilhelm II (18591941), Tsar Nicholas II (18681941), Marianne (the common persanification of the French Republic) and Mutsuhito (18521912), Emperor of Japan, from Le Petit Journal, 16th January 1890, French School (nineteenth century) / Private Collection, Archives Charmet / The Bridgeman Art Library.

Acknowledgements

The editor and publisher would like to thank all the academic and support staff of the A200 Course Team for their contribution to Exploring History .

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