PFH1172836: China: The Naxi (Nakhi) Folk Orchestra, Naxi Orchestra Hall, Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172874: Vietnam: Tea picker at a tea plantation near Thanh Son, Phu Tho Province, northwest Vietnam / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172878: Vietnam: Tea picker at a tea plantation near Thanh Son, Phu Tho Province, northwest Vietnam / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172910: Vietnam: Dang Huy Tru (1825-1874) the first Vietnamese photographer / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172922: China: Bactrian camels at Lake Karakul on the Karakoram Highway, Xinjiang / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172928: China: Kirghiz horseman at Lake Karakul on the Karakoram Highway, Xinjiang / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172979: Thailand: Phraya Manopakorn Nititada (1884-1948), Prime Minister of Thailand 1932-1933 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172990: Thailand: Pote Sarasin (1905-2000), Prime Minister of Thailand (September 1957 - December 1957) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172994: Thailand: Major General Mom Rajawongse Kukrit Pramoj (1911-1995), Prime Minister of Thailand 1975-1976 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172995: Thailand: Tanin Kraivixien or Thanin Kraivikien (1927- ), Prime Minister of Thailand 1976-1977 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173005: Thailand: Samak Sundaravej (1935-2009), Prime Minister of Thailand (29 January 2008 - 9 September 2008) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173013: China: Golden Pheasant; watercolour from a gouache album of paintings of various Chinese birds, 19th century / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173025: China: Kangxiwa River, Karakoram Highway, Xinjiang / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173072: China: Emperor Nurhaci (1559 - 1626), his temple name was Taizu / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173084: Sudan: A door keeper at the house of the former Mahdi, Omdurman, 1936 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173112: USA / Wales: Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), Welsh-American Explorer and Imperialist, 1872 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172268: India: A mural painting of Virupaksha from Hemis Monastery, established in 1672, at Hemis, 40km southeast of Leh, Ladakh / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172492: Thailand: On On Hotel, old Phuket town, Phuket / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172288: Japan: Three sumo wrestlers (rikishi) and a referee (gyoji), c. 1900, Enami Nobukuni (1859-1929) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172471: Syria: A Syrian Bedouin with his wife and tightly-swaddled child, 1893 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172289: Japan: Buddhist monk in elaborate robes with fan and prayer beads, c.1900 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172497: Iran: 'Selim the Koordish pastor of Amideah', sketch and watercolour by Justin Perkins, Urmia (1839) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172311: Japan: A geisha arranging flowers, c.1895, Enami Nobukuni (1859-1929) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172738: China: Door detail, Qiongzhu Si (Bamboo Temple), northwest of Kunming / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172580: Japan: A large group of schoolchildren posing on steps in the school grounds, c.1900 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172771: Iran: Page from an illuminated 1604 copy of Tuhfat al-Iraqayn by Afzal al-Din Shirvani Khaqani (1126-1198) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172612: Algeria: Saint Augustine sacrificing to an idol of the Manichaeans, attributed to Aert van den Bossche, c.1500, with Hippo Regius transposed to medieval Bruges / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172810: China: Ming Dynasty Great Hall of the Buddha and the octagonal Qing-era pavilion, Yuantong Si (Yuantong Temple), Kunming, Yunnan Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172667: Vietnam: Poster pledging to defend Vietnam's sovereignty over the Paracels and Spratlys Archipelagos / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172674: China: One of a set of maps of Zheng He's Ming Dynasty maritime expeditions to the Indian Ocean (1405-1433), reproduced in the Mao Kun map, 1628 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172682: India: An Indian representation of Rahu, Snake Demon and causer of solar and lunar eclipses / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172722: China: Walking street between the East and West pagodas (Xisi Ta or West Pagoda in background) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172725: China: Guardian figure, Qiongzhu Si (Bamboo Temple), northwest of Kunming / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172736: China: Qiongzhu Si (Bamboo Temple), northwest of Kunming / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172751: China: Two affluent Chinese women, one with a child, being pulled in rickshaws, Beijing, late Qing Dynasty (c.1890) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172765: Iran: Page from an illuminated 1604 copy of Tuhfat al-Iraqayn by Afzal al-Din Shirvani Khaqani (1126-1198) / Bridgeman Images